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I want to use react-quill for my react rich text editor but I couldn't find a way to add a color picker in the toolbar. I'm also using typescript. here is my component:

const modules = {
  toolbar: [
    [{ font: ['', 'times-new-roman', 'arial'] }],
    [{ header: [1, 2, 3, false] }],
    ['bold', 'italic', 'underline', 'strike', 'blockquote'],
    [{ list: 'ordered' }, { list: 'bullet' }, { indent: '-1' }, { indent: '+1' }],
    ['link'],
    ['clean']
   
  ],
}
function RichTextEditor() {
  return <ReactQuill theme="snow" modules={modules} formats={formats} preserveWhitespace />
}

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You can use custom toolbar with javascript like this, it might works!

var quill = new Quill('#editor-container', {
  modules: {
    toolbar: [
      [{
        header: [1, 2, false]
      }],
      ['bold', 'italic', 'underline'],
      ['image', 'code-block'],
      [{
        'color': ['#F00', '#0F0', '#00F', '#000', '#FFF', 'color-picker']
      }]
    ]
  },
  placeholder: 'Compose an epic...',
  theme: 'snow' // or 'bubble'
});

function showColorPicker(value) {
  if (value === 'color-picker') {
    var picker = document.getElementById('color-picker');
    if (!picker) {
      picker = document.createElement('input');
      picker.id = 'color-picker';
      picker.type = 'color';
      picker.style.display = 'none';
      picker.value = '#FF0000';
      document.body.appendChild(picker);

      picker.addEventListener('change', function() {
        quill.format('color', picker.value);
      }, false);
    }
    picker.click();
  } else {
    quill.format('color', value);
  }
}

var toolbar = quill.getModule('toolbar');
toolbar.addHandler('color', showColorPicker);
#editor-container {
  height: 375px;
}

.ql-color .ql-picker-options [data-value=color-picker]:before {
  content: 'Pick Color';
}

.ql-color .ql-picker-options [data-value=color-picker] {
  background: none !important;
  width: 100% !important;
  height: 25px !important;
  text-align: center;
  color: blue;
  text-decoration: underline;
}
<script src="//cdn.quilljs.com/1.3.6/quill.js"></script>
<script src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.2.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
<link href="//cdn.quilljs.com/1.3.6/quill.snow.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<link href="//cdn.quilljs.com/1.3.6/quill.bubble.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<link href="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/KaTeX/0.7.1/katex.min.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<link href="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/highlight.js/9.12.0/styles/monokai-sublime.min.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<div id="editor-container">
</div>

This is an example with javascript, you can convert into typescript if you want. Thank you.

Priyen Mehta
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