Text Formatting
Add style and emphasis to your text using various formatting options.
Make text bold, italic, underlined, or apply a combination of these styles for emphasis.
Add strikethrough to indicate deleted content, use
inline code for technical terms, or highlight important information.Format mathematical expressions with subscript and superscript text.
Show keyboard shortcuts like ⌘ + B for bold or ⌘ + I for italic formatting.
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'use client';
import * as React from 'react';
import { Plate, usePlateEditor } from 'platejs/react';
import { EditorKit } from '@/components/editor/editor-kit';
import { Editor, EditorContainer } from '@/components/ui/editor';
import { DEMO_VALUES } from './values/demo-values';
export default function Demo({ id }: { id: string }) {
const editor = usePlateEditor({
plugins: EditorKit,
value: DEMO_VALUES[id],
});
return (
<Plate editor={editor}>
<EditorContainer variant="demo">
<Editor />
</EditorContainer>
</Plate>
);
}
Basic text formatting marks like bold, italic, and underline.
basic-marks-demo


Features
- Format text as subscript for mathematical expressions or chemical formulas
- Keyboard shortcut support for quick formatting
- Renders as
<sub>HTML element by default
Kit Usage
Installation
The fastest way to add the subscript plugin is with the BasicMarksKit, which includes pre-configured SubscriptPlugin along with other basic marks and their Plate UI components.
'use client';
import {
BoldPlugin,
CodePlugin,
HighlightPlugin,
ItalicPlugin,
KbdPlugin,
StrikethroughPlugin,
SubscriptPlugin,
SuperscriptPlugin,
UnderlinePlugin,
} from '@platejs/basic-nodes/react';
import { CodeLeaf } from '@/components/ui/code-node';
import { HighlightLeaf } from '@/components/ui/highlight-node';
import { KbdLeaf } from '@/components/ui/kbd-node';
export const BasicMarksKit = [
BoldPlugin,
ItalicPlugin,
UnderlinePlugin,
CodePlugin.configure({
node: { component: CodeLeaf },
shortcuts: { toggle: { keys: 'mod+e' } },
}),
StrikethroughPlugin.configure({
shortcuts: { toggle: { keys: 'mod+shift+x' } },
}),
SubscriptPlugin.configure({
shortcuts: { toggle: { keys: 'mod+comma' } },
}),
SuperscriptPlugin.configure({
shortcuts: { toggle: { keys: 'mod+period' } },
}),
HighlightPlugin.configure({
node: { component: HighlightLeaf },
shortcuts: { toggle: { keys: 'mod+shift+h' } },
}),
KbdPlugin.withComponent(KbdLeaf),
];
Add Kit
Add the kit to your plugins:
import { createPlateEditor } from 'platejs/react';
import { BasicMarksKit } from '@/components/editor/plugins/basic-marks-kit';
const editor = createPlateEditor({
plugins: [
// ...otherPlugins,
...BasicMarksKit,
],
});Manual Usage
Installation
pnpm add @platejs/basic-nodes
Add Plugin
Include SubscriptPlugin in your Plate plugins array when creating the editor.
import { SubscriptPlugin } from '@platejs/basic-nodes/react';
import { createPlateEditor } from 'platejs/react';
const editor = createPlateEditor({
plugins: [
// ...otherPlugins,
SubscriptPlugin,
],
});Configure Plugin
You can configure the SubscriptPlugin with custom keyboard shortcuts.
import { SubscriptPlugin } from '@platejs/basic-nodes/react';
import { createPlateEditor } from 'platejs/react';
const editor = createPlateEditor({
plugins: [
// ...otherPlugins,
SubscriptPlugin.configure({
shortcuts: { toggle: { keys: 'mod+comma' } },
}),
],
});shortcuts.toggle: Defines a keyboard shortcut to toggle subscript formatting.
Add Toolbar Button
You can add MarkToolbarButton to your Toolbar to toggle subscript formatting.
Plugins
SubscriptPlugin
Plugin for subscript text formatting. Renders as <sub> HTML element by default.
Transforms
tf.subscript.toggle
Toggles the subscript formatting for the selected text.