The width of the toolbar configuration should match the width of the node edit screen

Wim Leers → credited lauriii → .

Discussed this in detail with @lauriii.

The CKEditor 5 toolbar configuration admin UI at /admin/config/content/formats/manage/basic_html is a visual wireframe-esque representation of the enabled buttons. It looks quite different from the actual CKEditor 5 on the /node/add form. On top of that, it can look even more different in other contexts: in narrow viewports, when used inline (like Quick Edit used to — CKEditor 5 supports that too!), and so on.

These principles were also the case for CKEditor 4's toolbar configuration admin UI, actually! (But there, the admin UI actually looked more like the actual end result — so it was arguably more confusing.)

While I appreciated your suggestion at #9, it unfortunately really is not feasible to implement — @lauriii confirmed that.

So, to keep this module's issue queue maintainable, closing this issue — hope you agree with the rationale!

Automatically closed - issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.

woops sorry for the late reply. the window i've kept open for writing up the reply slipped through - too many open tabs in too many browser windows.

and yep no problem at all. the current iteration isn't wrong or bad in any way. the suggestion was just towards a potential further improvement. but as you outlined it is a totally reasonable to close the issue if the endeavor isn't feasible at all. thanks for the investigation and discussing the issue with lauri!

I'm seeing this problem with embedded form contexts. I have a D9.5.9 site I am working on at the moment. I am using the Gin theme. When I am looking at text area fields using CKEditor that are directly in fields of the content type it looks great (see screenshot below). It clearly stuffs the extra controls behind a triple-dot icon and looks great.

However, when I edit and embedded entity form (entity reference field) and that entity (in this case ECK Brick) has a text area with editor I see it overflowing to the right instead of nesting in this triple-dot menu. That to me is the problem.

Good width display:

Problem toolbar width:

I am rerolling the patch for 9.5.x

Please check the below given patch as ckeditor5 is now part of core.