 connecting text editors to text formats goal configure a text format so that when a user is editing text and selects this text format a text editor installed on your site is shown configure the text editor such as choosing which buttons and functions are available see managing text filters and text formats for more about text formats what is a text editor  a text editor is software typically a javascript library that provides buttons and other command mechanisms to make editing html text easier some editors are called visual or wysiwyg what you see is what you get  editors these editors hide the details of html from the user and instead show formatted output on the screen the core text editor module provides a framework for deploying text editors on your site the core ckeditor 5 module provides ckeditor 5 which is a widelyused javascript text editor that creates clean and valid html the module also enforces the html tag restrictions in the associated text format various contributed modules provide other editors to install a new editor besides installing the module you may need to download the editor library from a thirdparty site steps in the manage administrative menu navigate to configuration   content authoring   text formats and editors  the text editor column in the table shows the text editor that is currently connected to each text format if any follow the steps on managing text filters and text formats to add a new text format or configure an existing text format when you reach the step about text editors return to this topic select ckeditor 5 as the text editor  or another text editor that you have installed the rest of these steps assume you selected ckeditor 5  under toolbar configuration  drag buttons between available buttons and active toolbar  only buttons in active toolbar will be shown to the user focusing or hovering over a button will display a tooltip explaining what the button does drag buttons within active toolbar to the desired order and group buttons by dragging them between group identifiers drag a new group identifier to the toolbar to add additional groups if you add buttons that require configuration the ckeditor 5 plugin settings section will be visible and provide their respective configuration forms return to managing text filters and text formats to complete the text format configuration and be sure to save the text format  