You can hide toolbars and toolbar items either programmatically or manually by updating the editor source XML file.

You can set the Visible property of the ToolbarItem elements to "False" to hide buttons and dropdowns on your toolbars. You can also set the Visible property of the Toolbar elements to "False" to hide toolbars and all the items on them.

Even though you hide the toolbars and toolbar items, you can still initialize them by setting the Selected property of buttons, and the SelectedValue property of dropdowns.

In this sample, SpellAsYouType and Italic buttons, and FontName and FontSize dropdowns are selected in the HideToolbarItems.xml file. Since the Visible property of the Toolbar element is set to "False", there is no toolbar displayed, but you can see the effects of those selections as you type.