Rich Text Editor Options

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Important Note:

Line breaks in the Editor widget automatically double-space. To get a single line break, press Shift + Enter on your keyboard.

The rich text editor is available when creating content for relevant content types.

The Rich Text Editor below the Article header.

Editor Features

  • Bold: Bold text

  • Italics: Italicize your text

  • Strikethrough: Show your text with a line through it

  • More Text: Select to show additional options The More Text options in the Rich Text Editor tool bar.

    • Subscript: Allows you to have text smaller than your normal text and on the bottom, similar to a sub-text

    • Superscript: Allows you to have text smaller than your normal text and aligned to the top, similar to saying "x squared"

    • Font Family: Choose the font for your text

    • Font Size: Change the size of the font

    • Text Color: Allows you to edit the color of the text

    • Background Color: Modify the background of the text

    • Clear Formatting: Quickly remove extra formatting on your page. This is helpful if you paste content onto the site and it does not appear correctly.

    • Quote: Wraps your text in a q tag, which inserts quotation marks and informs screen readers and other devices that the content is a quote

    • Insert Abbreviation: Informs the screen reader that there is an abbreviation; enhances comprehension of the text for the end-user

    • Language: Tells screen readers if the specific text is a different language; enhances comprehension and translation for the end-user

  • Align Left: Align your text to the left

  • Align Center: Align your text to the center

  • Paragraph Format: Select a style such as Normal, Heading 1, Heading 2, Heading 3, and Code.

  • More Paragraph: Expand to view additional paragraph formatting The More Paragraph options in the Rich Text Editor toolbar.

    • Ordered List: Add numbered lists to your content area. You can either select existing text to make a numbered list, or you can start a new line and begin a new numbered list

    • Align Right: Align your text to the right

    • Align Justify: Justify your text

    • Unordered List: Add bulleted lists to your content area. You can either select existing text to make a bulleted list, or you can start a new line and begin a new bulleted list

    • Decrease / Increase Indent: Decrease or increase the indentation of text

    • Quote: Insert blockquote styling around your text

  • Accessibility Checker: CivicPlus provides an accessibility checker for the content located in the Editor

  • Insert Image: Insert and format images into your content area

  • Insert File Link: Opens up the Asset repository so you can select a file to link to

  • More Rich: Select to view additional text options The More Rich options in the Rich Text Editor tool bar.

    • Insert Link: Add any link to the page

    • Insert Table: Insert a table into your content area

    • Insert Video: Embed or link to a video

    • Embed URL: Paste a URL to embed

    • Special Characters: Insert special characters onto your page

    • Emoticons: Insert emojis

    • Insert Horizontal Line: Insert a horizontal line to separate text

  • Undo: Undo recent changes

  • Redo: Redo recent changes; only recognizes active edits, as soon as the page saves, it will not be available

  • More Misc: Expand to view additional miscellaneous options The More Miscellaneous options in the Rich Text Editor toolbar.

    • Code View: Work on the HTML side of the editor to add custom styles, colors, or other coding.

    • Fullscreen: Click to expand the editor to a full-screen view

    • Print: Click to print the text

    • Select All: Quickly and easily select all content that is in the editor

    • Help: View shortcuts for the editor