Customizing Kentico Kontent

Question

Is there a way to customize Kentico Kontent (cloud) to add a plugin?

Requirements for the plugin:

1. Can have HTML UI
2. Loads on every content item
3. Can extract text from content elements
4. Can select specific words from content item
5. Can modify specific words from content item

Does Kentico Kontent provide JS API for editing and modifying content in content item?

Thanks, Abhijeet

Answer 1

Yeah, they're called custom elements.

1. HTML UI is actually required in order for a custom element to work
2. Multiple custom elements can be included in every content item
3. Use the getElementValue() method + you can access the context object to retrieve additional information + you can observe changes in other elements
4. You can achieve that with your custom logic
5. So far, you can only modify the contents/value of the custom element itself

• Browse the gallery of sample custom elements: https://kentico.github.io/kontent-custom-element-samples/gallery/
• Get inspired by their code: https://github.com/Kentico/kontent-custom-element-samples