The rich text editor

The rich text editor is the writing surface inside blocks such as Text and Heading. You type your copy, format it with the toolbar, add links, and drop in inline buttons, media, and HTML. What you see is structure. Your theme decides the final look.

A toolbar sits pinned above the editor, and a smaller floating toolbar appears over any text you select.

Formatting text

Select the text you want to change, then use the toolbar.

• Headings: every level, from H1 (the largest) down to H6 (the smallest).
• Bold, italic, and underline: also available with Cmd/Ctrl + B, I, and U.
• Bulleted and numbered lists.
• Alignment (left, center, right), indent and outdent, and blockquotes.
• A horizontal divider to break up sections.

The text-formatting menu

The text-formatting menu (the A dropdown) adds the less-common touches:

• Change case: Lowercase, Uppercase, Capitalize.
• Strikethrough, Subscript, Superscript, and Highlight.
• Clear Formatting: strips every format, color, and inline property from the selected text and returns it to plain text.

Font color

Color selected text from a preset palette of 15 swatches, or enter a custom hex value of your own. With no color applied, text uses your theme's default text color.

Special characters

The special-characters picker (the smiley-face button labeled Insert special character) inserts a glyph at your cursor, grouped into Punctuation, Quotes, Currency, Symbols, Accented, and Emoji.

Undo and redo

Step back and forward through your changes with the undo and redo controls in the toolbar.

Links

Select text, then add a link. You can point it at either:

• Internal link: pick a page or item on your own site with the Document to link to picker. Internal links repair themselves if the target is later renamed.
• Custom URL: type any web address in the Custom URL field, for destinations outside your site.

Turn on the new-tab option to open the link in a new tab, which is useful when it leaves your site.

Inline properties (class and ID)

Select inline text and open Inline Properties to attach a CSS Class or an ID, then press Apply. This only attaches the name. It applies no styling on its own. A class changes how text looks only if your theme defines matching CSS for it. An unknown or misspelled class has no effect. An ID gives the text an anchor you can link to.

Inserting inline blocks

From the insert menu you can add three blocks within your text, each documented on its own page:

• Button: a call-to-action button that sits inline, within a line of text.
• Media: an image or video, picked from your media library or added by web address. Sits on its own line.
• HTML: a snippet of custom markup. Sits on its own line.

Dynamic sources

When you write inside a page or piece of content that carries live data, an Insert dynamic source option drops in a token (shown as {{token}}) that the live page fills from that content, for example an event's date or a venue's name. The available sources depend on the kind of content you are editing. They include any custom attributes you have created.

Tables

Tables are available but still experimental, and their appearance depends on your theme. Build one if you need it, but always preview the page before publishing.

Shared controls

The editor itself has no block-level settings. It lives inside the Text or Heading block, which carries the width, alignment, background, and spacing controls.

• Layout controls: width, max width, and alignment.
• Background and overlay: sit the text on a tinted panel.
• Spacing and padding: the room inside and around the block.

Example

To write an event introduction with a styled lead line and a link:

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