I think using divarea plugin will solve the problem.
add it's reference to it in index.html<script src="http://cdn.ckeditor.com/4.5.11/full-all/plugins/divarea/plugin.js"></script>
then add 'extraPlugins' to config:<ckeditor [(ngModel)]="content" [config]="{extraPlugins: 'divarea'}"></ckeditor>
and regarding 'readOnly' it's preferred to use in in config also:<ckeditor [(ngModel)]="content" [config]="{readOnly: 'true'}"></ckeditor>
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