This field is useful when you want to provide formatting options for long descriptive text.
You can learn more about how you can add this field to a content type in this article.
The users will get the following options to format the input text:
Formatting Options | Description |
Bold | Make your text bold |
Italic | Italicize your text |
Underline | Underline your text |
Strikethrough | Cross out the text by drawing a line through it |
Superscript | Type small letters just above the line of text. |
Subscript | Type small letters just below the line of text. |
Text Color | Change the color of your text. |
Text Background Color | Make your text stand out by highlighting it in a bright color. |
Inline Class (Code, Highlighted, Transparent) | Applies the selected style to the text |
Inline Style (Big red, Small blue) | Applies the selected style to the text |
Clear Formatting | Remove all formatting from a selection of text, leaving only the normal, unformatted text. |
Text Alignment (Left, Right, Justified) | Align your content to the left, right, or center. |
Ordered List | Number, lower alphabets, lower greek, roman, upper alpha, upper roman |
Unordered List | Bullets, circle, disk, square |
Paragraph Format | Apply a heading style to text (Normal, Heading [1, 2, 3, 4], Code) |
Decrease Indent | Move your paragraph closer to the margin. |
Increase Indent | Move your paragraph farther away from the margin. |
Block Quote (Increase or Decrease) | Applies a block-level quotation format in the content |
Undo (Ctrl + Z) | Undo changes you made to the content. |
Redo (Ctrl + Y) | Redo changes you made to the content. |
Select All | Select all the content in the editor |
Code View | View the entire content of the editor in HTML |
Insert Table |
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Embed URL | Add a link to your content for quick access to web pages and files. Pasted or typed URL text is converted into a link. For example, "http://myexample.com" will become "http://myexample.com". |
Insert Horizontal Line | Inserts a horizontal line in your content |
Configure more options as per your need
The Rich Text field has a few more other properties that can be configured when you add it to a content type, which is:
1. Default:
2. Validations:
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- Make it a required field.
- Make it a private field.
- Enable localization.
- Add minimum characters limit.
- Add maximum characters limit.
3. More:
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- Add a default value to the field.
- Add some help text to show information in a tooltip.
- Add placeholder value.