Add support for text color / background highlight

[abanobboles]

First, thanks for the awesome work on react-native-enriched! 🙏

Feature request:

Please add the ability to change:

• Text (foreground) color
• Text background / highlight color

I think this would make a big difference and many people would use it.

Question:
Was there a specific reason you didn’t embed Lexical natively on iOS/Android? Are there technical limitations or trade-offs?

Thank you!

[szydlovsky]

Addressing the question; we tried using Lexical natively on iOS and it wasn't what we were looking for. Sure, it was performant but there were a lot of bugs there and fixing them on our own turned out to be way too difficult. Also, adding any custom extensions to the Lexical proved to be an uneasy task as well. This meant using Lexical as a core was a pretty risky idea and we decided that our own solution is the way.

[szydlovsky]

The text foreground color can already be changed using Stylesheet's color prop: https://github.com/software-mansion-labs/react-native-enriched?tab=readme-ov-file#style.
If it comes to text background or highlight, we are not currently planning on adding this one since it would collide with some of the logic from inline code, mentions and code block (all of which do have background color or can have one).

[abanobboles]

That's a sad thing if you don't plan to do that, because this feature alone would put all other libraries in this area in the shade with what you already have.

You've already done most of the work for this, because otherwise someone would still have to go ahead and develop such a library.

[abanobboles]

But once again, great work!

[abanobboles]

Yes, but only the entire block. My goal is to be able to do something like the following:

[szydlovsky]

Hmm, this looks like a completely custom, user-defined styles you are talking about. Definitely might be a thing in the future but for now we only support library defined styles that most rich text editors use.

[abanobboles]

Yes, that was very custom, but one solution would be to introduce custom HTML tags.

But okay, that is fine, thanks again!

[SMhdAsadi]

This would be a valuable addition to the library, and it fits well with real use cases we encounter in our projects. Looking forward to seeing this feature land.

[temlabs]

Likewise looking forward to this possibility. Custom styles aside, something as simple (?!) as would be invaluable!

[kacperzolkiewski]

Hi @abanobboles,
Thanks for the feature request!
We're currently working on support for applying foreground and background colors to selected text, which should address this use case. The implementation is already in progress and is expected to be available in the near future:
#641

[temlabs]

Day = made!