We had the same requirement and this is how we did it.
- Instead of adding the "Upload Image" option to toolbar, create a keyboard shortcut for opening the image upload modal using addShortcut method. Something like this in reactjs:
editor.addShortcut('ctrl+shift+i', 'Open image upload window', function () {
editor.execCommand('mceImage')
});
- Now that we have a code block that runs when pressing the shortcut keys, we can add logic inside that block to initiate a click action on the "Upload" button within the modal like this:
setTimeout(() => {
let element = document.querySelectorAll('.tox-dialog__body-nav-item')[1];
if (element) { element.click() }
}, 0)
The setTimeout is added to make sure that the modal is added to DOM before run the querySelectorAll method on the document object is executed. Timeout even with 0 will make sure the code block only executes after all the synchronous tasks are done, which includes the DOM update.
In the end, the final codeblock will look like this:
editor.addShortcut('ctrl+shift+i', 'Open image upload window', function () {
editor.execCommand('mceImage')
setTimeout(() => {
let element = document.querySelectorAll('.tox-dialog__body-nav-item')[1];
if (element) { element.click() }
}, 0)
});
Edit:
If you notice other elements in the DOM with the same class as "tox-dialog__body-nav-item", you can change the querySelectorAll method to make it more well defined and make sure it only selects the class within image upload modal if found. I haven't yet ran into this issue, so this was enough for my case.