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This example shows you how to add a simple menu button to TinyMCE’s toolbar. This demo inserts text at the cursor. The Codepen JS also shows you how to add sub-menus to a menu item.

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<textarea id="custom-toolbar-menu-button">
  <p style="text-align: center; font-size: 15px;"><img title="TinyMCE Logo" src="//www.tiny.cloud/images/glyph-tinymce@2x.png" alt="TinyMCE Logo" width="110" height="97" />
  </p>
  <h2 style="text-align: center;">Welcome to the TinyMCE editor demo!</h2>
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</textarea>

tinymce.init({
  selector: 'textarea#custom-toolbar-menu-button',
  height: 500,
  toolbar: 'mybutton',

  content_css: [
    '//fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Lato:300,300i,400,400i',
    '//www.tiny.cloud/css/codepen.min.css'
  ],

  setup: function (editor) {

    /* example, adding a toolbar menu button */
    editor.ui.registry.addMenuButton('mybutton', {
      text: 'My button',
      fetch: function (callback) {
        var items = [
          {
            type: 'menuitem',
            text: 'Menu item 1',
            onAction: function () {
              editor.insertContent(' <em>You clicked menu item 1!</em>');
            }
          },
          {
            type: 'nestedmenuitem',
            text: 'Menu item 2',
            icon: 'user',
            getSubmenuItems: function () {
              return [
                {
                  type: 'menuitem',
                  text: 'Sub menu item 1',
                  icon: 'unlock',
                  onAction: function () {
                    editor.insertContent(' <em>You clicked Sub menu item 1!</em>');
                  }
                },
                {
                  type: 'menuitem',
                  text: 'Sub menu item 2',
                  icon: 'lock',
                  onAction: function () {
                    editor.insertContent(' <em>You clicked Sub menu item 2!</em>');
                  }
                }
              ];
            }
          }
        ];
        callback(items);
      }
    });

  }
});