Introduction

Intent UI Editor is a rich text editor you add to your project with the shadcn CLI. It ships as source files, not as a package, so the toolbar, menus and blocks live in your repo and you can change any of them.

Built on Lexical

The editing engine is Lexical. It handles the document model, selection, history, serialization and the plugin system. This documentation covers the UI that sits on top of it: the toolbar, floating menus, insert menus, activity bar and the look of each block.

When a topic belongs to Lexical, such as node classes, commands, editor state or the JSON format, we link to the Lexical docs instead of repeating them.

Built with

• Lexical for the editor core.
• React Aria Components for accessible menus, popovers, dialogs and color pickers.
• Tailwind CSS v4 for styling, using the Intent UI design tokens.

How these docs are organized

Getting started covers installing the editor, how the files are structured, and the three layout regions every editor is made of: the toolbar, the content area and the activity bar.

Patterns are copy-and-paste editors, one per feature. The full editor is the editor you get from the CLI, and every other pattern is a smaller piece of it: a text format toolbar, a slash menu, a table editor, and so on. Each pattern is a complete component. Copy one as is, or lift the parts you need into your own editor.