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Why make TinyMCE mobile friendly? Simple. We live in a “mobile-first” world and expect a seamless experience between desktop and mobile. Our goal is to help you achieve this with as little effort as possible.

We’re pleased to introduce TinyMCE mobile, available in version 4.7 and later.

TinyMCE mobile is designed to run on iOS Safari and Android Chrome. You’ll find a streamlined interface while keeping the most common touch interactions easily to hand.

Configuration is relatively easy, so let’s get started.

Note: Please note that TinyMCE mobile will not work on non-mobile environments.

Configuring mobile

New to Tiny 5, the mobile experience is built in and does not require additional configuration.

Tinymce will detect the platform and will show an optimal UI experience given a device type and screensize.

Configuring the Plugins

The plugins supported by mobile are currently limited to the autosave, autolink, and lists plugins. This is by design. TinyMCE Mobile is in the early release cycle and does not include all the plugins available in the desktop version. The developer community is encouraged to provide suggestions about which plugins should be mobile optimized. Please complete this survey to provide feedback.

Specify which of the plugins should be added by adding a plugin entry to the mobile section as shown in the following example:

tinymce.init({
  selector: 'textarea',
  theme: 'silver',
  mobile: {
    theme: 'mobile',
    plugins: [ 'autosave', 'lists', 'autolink' ]
  }
});

Configuring the Toolbar

TinyMCE mobile supports a small subset of the toolbar items supported by the main mode.

tinymce.init({
  selector: 'textarea',
  theme: 'silver',
  mobile: {
    theme: 'mobile',
    plugins: [ 'autosave', 'lists', 'autolink' ],
    toolbar: [ 'undo', 'bold', 'italic', 'styleselect' ]
  }
});

Below are the toolbar items currently supported, with any plugins/configuration required.

Note: The list functions require the lists plugin and styleselect requires configuring style_formats.

Name	Function	Plugins Required	Configuration
undo	Undo operation
redo	Redo operation
bold	Bold formatting operation
italic	Italic formatting operation
underline	Underline formatting operation
link	Insert / Edit a hyperlink
unlink	Remove an existing hyperlink
image	Insert an image
bullist	Insert an unordered list	lists
numlist	Insert an ordered list	lists
fontsizeselect	Change the font size
forecolor	Apply a foreground color
styleselect	Apply a custom style		style_formats
removeformat	Removes any inline formatting

Browser compatibility

During our initial QA, we tested mobile on the following platforms. If you use other platforms and encounter bugs, please let us know in the TinyMCE issue tracker.

Mobile Platform Compatibility

OS	Browser	Device
Android 8	Chrome	Mobile phone
Android 7	Chrome	Mobile phone
Android 6	Chrome	Mobile phone
iOS11	Safari	iPhone/iPad
iOS10	Safari	iPhone/iPad

To shape the future of mobile editing, complete our survey to have your say.