Rich Text Editor

The format menu applies semantic structure to the block containing the cursor. Common choices include normal text, headings, a generic block, preformatted text, and code. The available heading levels and block formats can vary by field.

Use heading levels to describe the document hierarchy rather than to achieve a particular visual size. The front end determines how each semantic element is presented to readers.

Applications can enable inline formats such as bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, superscript, and subscript. Enabled formats can be combined within the same block.

Select text before applying an inline format, or enable the format before typing. Apply the same active format again to remove it.

Alignment controls apply to the block containing the cursor or to all selected blocks. The available choices are left, center, right, and justified alignment.

Use the numbered-list or bulleted-list control to turn the current block into a list. Pressing Enter creates another list item; pressing Enter on an empty list item ends the list. Use a soft line break when you need a new line without creating another item.

The indent and outdent controls change the nesting level of a list item. Outside a list, they adjust the indentation of the selected block when the field permits it.

Right-click a list to open its properties. Depending on the list type, you can change the marker style or the starting number.

Anchors are created using a dedicated anchor control in the toolbar.

To create an anchor, place the cursor at the destination and use the anchor control. Anchor names cannot contain spaces and must be unique within the rich-text value. The anchor then becomes available in the link dialog.

Internal links are stored as references to other content items, while external links are stored as literal URLs.

For details about how internal and media links are stored and resolved by a front end, see the CMS rich-text links reference.

After selecting an image, the dialog provides controls for alignment, style, and width. Left- or right-aligned images allow surrounding text to wrap around them. Centered and full-width placement keep the image on its own line.

Editors may optionally provide an image caption, which will be displayed with the image.

Content Studio requires an accessibility setting for each image:

Image styles are supplied by applications and can control server-side cropping or filters as well as the presentation in the editor. Styles available from the applications associated with the current content are combined in the image dialog.

The built-in Original (no image processing) style serves the original image without server-side processing or resizing. Selecting it can disable controls that depend on image processing, such as custom width.

Developers can define custom image styles as described in the CMS image-style reference.

Developers control the final image rendering in the presentation layer. The result, normally visible in the preview, may therefore differ from the configuration shown in the editor.

For the stored image reference and front-end processing model, see the CMS rich-text image reference.

Content Studio includes two built-in macros:

See the CMS macro reference for the available built-in macros, application configuration, and rendering model.

Use the table control to select a table size from the grid, or choose More to open a dialog where you can specify the number of rows and columns, headers, and a caption.

When the cursor is inside an existing table, use the table menu or context menu to add and remove rows or columns, configure headers, edit table properties, or remove the table. The actions available depend on the current cell and selection.

Using the context menu, you may perform a range of actions on the table, such as adding or removing rows and columns, accessing the table properties or cell properties, and other table-related operations.

Open Table Properties from the context menu to configure the table’s dimensions, headers, and caption. The dimensions of an existing table cannot be changed from this dialog; use the context-menu actions to add or remove rows and columns.

Formatted paste is the default. It retains compatible structure and formatting from sources such as word processors while removing unsupported markup. Switch to plain-text paste when only the text should be inserted.

The paste-mode selection applies to subsequent paste operations. It does not change content already in the editor.

Users with the Content Expert role or the Editor or Owner project role can open the source dialog and edit the underlying HTML. This is useful for inspecting structure or making a precise correction that the visual controls do not support.

Fullscreen mode expands the Rich Text Editor into a dialog with more room for long content. The same content and configured toolbar remain available, including dialogs for links, images, macros, and other elements. Closing fullscreen mode returns to the original field without creating a separate value.