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Rich Textarea

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Updated: 7 Dec 2025
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A small customizable textarea for React to colorize, highlight, decorate texts, offer autocomplete and much more.

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Overview

The Rich-Textarea is a highly customizable text input solution built specifically for React applications. Designed to be lightweight yet powerful, it allows users to easily add colorization, highlighting, and text decoration to the content within a traditional textarea. For developers who require more flexibility beyond the capabilities of standard textareas and typical editor libraries, this tool stands out with its ease of use and functional enhancements.

Whether you’re looking to improve user experience by employing features like autocomplete and custom event handling, or you simply need a more visually appealing text area without excessive complexity, Rich-Textarea caters to a variety of use cases while maintaining a small footprint.

Features

  • Styleable texts: Offers robust customization options including colorization and decoration, utilizing regex or tokenizers for enhanced text manipulation.
  • Easy event interaction: Access caret position and capture mouse events to create dynamic user interactions based on their actions.
  • Textarea compatibility: Designed to function like a native textarea, ensuring minimal disruption to typical user expectations.
  • Out-of-the-box integration: Compatible with various form libraries such as Formik and React Hook Form, making it a versatile choice for developers.
  • IME composition handling: Effectively manages IME-related events to enhance cross-browser usability.
  • Lightweight design: The bundle size is approximately 3kB (gzipped), allowing for quick load times without sacrificing functionality.