Still on Drupal 7? Security support for Drupal 7 ended on 5 January 2025. Please visit our Drupal 7 End of Life resources page to review all of your options.Goal of this module is to provide a generic entity browser/picker/selector. It can be used in any context where one needs to select few entities and do something with them.
Possible use cases:
- Powerful entity reference widget
- Embedding entities into wysiwyg.
- You name it!
Documentation
Please feel free to contribute to the documentation.
Examples
Entity browser comes with an example module that can be used as a starting point.
There is also File entity browser module that creates a nice widget that allows you to upload files and select from file library. It uses standard entity browser plugins and does some tweaks and theming on top of that.
Integrations
Entity browser integrates with Inline entity form. See documentation for more info.
List of available plugins
Displays
- Standalone (part of main module)
- iFrame (part of main module)
- Modal (part of main module)
Widget selectors
- Dropdown (part of main module)
- Tabs (part of main module)
- Single widget (part of main module)
Widgets
- File upload (part of main module)
- Media entity image upload
- Views (part of main module)
- DropzoneJS file upload
- DropzoneJS media entity image upload
- Entity form (submodule in main repo)
- Woodwing Elvis DAM
- Bynder
Selection displays
- No display (part of main module)
- Multi-step display (part of main module)
Modules that use Entity browser
Development
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Project information
- Project categories: Content editing experience, Media
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Releases
Development version: 8.x-2.x-dev updated 4 Sep 2025 at 06:57 UTC











