Umbraco Rich Text

Takes the JSON rich text output from the Umbraco Content Delivery API and renders it with React.

[!IMPORTANT]
You need to enable the RichTextOutputAsJson option in the Content Delivery API. See Content Delivery API configuration for details.

Install

Install the @charlietango/umbraco-rich-text package with your package manager of choice.

npm install @charlietango/umbraco-rich-text

<UmbracoRichText>

Props

• element: The rich text property from the Umbraco Content Delivery API.
• renderBlock: Render a specific block type. Return null to skip rendering the node.
• renderNode: Overwrite the default rendering of a node. Return undefined to render the default node. Return null to skip rendering the node.
  • meta: A function you can call to retrieve metadata describing the current element’s ancestor, children, previous, and next siblings. The values are built lazily when you invoke the function, keeping memory lower when renderNode doesn’t need the metadata for a given node.
• htmlAttributes: Default attributes to set on the defined HTML elements. These will be used, unless the element already has the attribute set. The only exception is the className attribute, which will be merged with the default value.
• stripStyles: Remove inline style attributes from HTML elements. Accepts:
  • true: Removes all inline styles from all HTML elements
  • An object with configuration options:
    • tags: Array of HTML tags from which to strip styles. If not provided, styles are stripped from all tags.
    • except: Array of HTML tags that should keep their styles, even if they are in the tags array.
  • Default is false (all inline styles are preserved).

When passing the renderBlock and renderNode props, consider making them static functions (move them outside the consuming component) to avoid unnecessary re-renders.

import {
  UmbracoRichText,
  RenderBlockContext,
  RenderNodeContext,
} from "@charlietango/umbraco-rich-text";
import Image from "next/image";
import Link from "next/link";

function renderNode({ tag, children, attributes }: RenderNodeContext) {
  switch (tag) {
    case "a":
      return <Link {...attributes}>{children}</Link>;
    case "p":
      return (
        <p className="text-lg" {...attributes}>
          {children}
        </p>
      );
    default:
      // Return `undefined` to render the default HTML node
      return undefined;
  }
}

function renderBlock({ content }: RenderBlockContext) {
  switch (content?.contentType) {
    // Switch over your Umbraco document types that can be rendered in the Rich Text blocks
    case "imageBlock":
      return <Image {...content.properties} />;
    default:
      return null;
  }
}

function RichText({ data }) {
  return (
    <UmbracoRichText
      data={data.richText}
      renderNode={renderNode}
      renderBlock={renderBlock}
      htmlAttributes={{ p: { className: "mb-4" } }}
      stripStyles={{
        // Strip styles from all tags except the following:
        except: ["img"], // Keep styles on `img` tags
      }}
    />
  );
}

Blocks

You can augment the renderBlock method with the generated OpenAPI types from Umbraco Content Delivery API. That way you can correctly filter the blocks you are rendering, based on the contentType, and get the associated properties. Create types/umbraco-rich-text.d.ts, and augment the UmbracoBlockItemModel interface with your applications definition for ApiBlockItemModel.

To generate the types, you'll want to use the Delivery Api Extensions package, alongside a tool to generate the types from the OpenAPI schema, like openapi-typescript.

types/umbraco-rich-text.d.ts

// Import the `components` generated by OpenAPI TypeScript.
import { components } from "./umbraco-openapi";

// Define the intermediate interface
type ApiBlockItemModel = components["schemas"]["ApiBlockItemModel"];

declare module "@charlietango/umbraco-rich-text" {
  interface UmbracoBlockItemModel extends ApiBlockItemModel {}
}

richTextToPlainText

A utility function to convert an Umbraco RichText element to plain text. This can be useful for generating meta descriptions or other text-based properties.

Parameters

• data (RichTextElementModel): The rich text element to be converted.
• options (Options, optional): An object to specify additional options.
  • firstParagraph (boolean, optional): If true, only the first paragraph with text content will be returned.
  • maxLength (number, optional): The maximum length of the returned text. If the text exceeds this length, it will be truncated to the nearest word and an ellipsis will be added.
  • ignoreTags (Array<string>, optional): An array of tags to be ignored during the conversion.

Returns

• string: The plain text representation of the rich text element.

Example

import { richTextToPlainText } from "@charlietango/umbraco-rich-text";

const plainText = richTextToPlainText(richTextData);

// Just the first paragraph
const firstParagraph = richTextToPlainText(richTextData, {
  firstParagraph: true,
});

// Just the first 100 characters, truncated at the nearest word with an ellipsis
const first100Characters = richTextToPlainText(richTextData, {
  maxLength: 100,
});

// Ignore certain tags, skipping their content
const ignoreTags = richTextToPlainText(richTextData, {
  ignoreTags: ["h1", "h2", "ol", "figure"],
});

Tips & Tricks

Passing values to renderNode and renderBlock

You can pass additional values to the renderNode and renderBlock functions, by making an inline function that returns the renderNode or renderBlock function. This can be useful if you need to pass extra context or props to the rendering functions. E.g. sizes for images, translations, or other data that is not part of the rich text element.

import {
  UmbracoRichText,
  RenderBlockContext,
  RenderNodeContext,
} from "@charlietango/umbraco-rich-text";
import Image from "next/image";
import Link from "next/link";

function renderNode(
  { tag, children, attributes }: RenderNodeContext,
  extra: { sizes: string },
) {
  switch (tag) {
    case "img":
      return <img {...attributes} sizes={extra.sizes} />;
    default:
      return undefined;
  }
}

function RichText({ data }) {
  return (
    <UmbracoRichText
      data={data.richText}
      renderNode={(node) => {
        return renderNode(node, { sizes: "720vw" });
      }}
    />
  );
}