Lexxy — A modern rich text editor for Rails

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A modern rich text editor for Rails

Lexxy is powering Basecamp and hundreds of other products.

Clean HTML, Markdown shortcuts, code highlighting, attachments, and more, all wired straight into Action Text.

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Everything you’d expect, done right

A focused set of features that respect your markup and your users.

Built on Lexical

Powered by Lexical, Meta's extensible text-editor framework

Clean HTML semantics

Paragraphs are real tags, as they should be

### Markdown support

**Inline** shortcuts and auto-formatting on paste, without leaving the editor

Code highlighting %>

Real-time syntax highlighting for fenced code blocks as you type

Smart links

Paste a URL over selected text to turn it into a link instantly

Attachment previews

Preview attachments like PDFs and videos right inside the editor

Image galleries

Display images in a grid, with full drag-n-drop support

Tables

Best-in-class UX for creating and editing tables

Configurable prompts

Mentions and interactive prompts with flexible loading and filtering

Action Text native

Generates the canonical HTML Action Text expects — drop-in for Trix

Extendable

Extensions allow you to write your own editor behavior

Customizable

Written in vanilla JavaScript and CSS for easy customization