Formatting Text in the CMS

Learn how to format text in the campus CMS.

WYSIWYG formatting options

Many fields in the CMS allow you to use the WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor. The editor has both drop-down menus and icons. Some formatting features are accessible from multiple menus and icons.

Drop-down menus

• Edit - Undo, Redo, Cut, Copy, Paste, Paste as Text and Select All
• Format - Bold, Italic, Underline, Strikethrough, Superscript, Subscript, Formats (the same as the Formats drop-down, below), and Clear formatting
• Insert - Link, Anchor, Image, Media, Special character (symbols and accented letters), Horizontal line, Date/time
• Table - (Insert) Table, Table properties, Delete table, Cell, Row, Column
• View - Visual aids, Show blocks
• Tools - Spellcheck, Source code (HTML), Full screen

Icons

Icon	Description
	Undo, redo
	Bold, italic, underline
	Align left, center, right, full
	Available text styles (headings)
	Bullets and numbering
	Outdent, indent
	Link, break link, insert anchor
	Insert/edit image
	Insert/edit video
	Edit HTML source code
	Toggle full screen mode

Format drop-down

Use the format drop-down menu to select headings. Headings provide important organizational and summary information for users, search engines, and screen readers. The title of the page will be a Heading 1 (built into the Blink/ TritonLink templates). Subsequent sections should use Heading 2 (<h2>), Heading 3 (<h3>), etc. Learn more about headings. The Format drop-down also includes:

• Headings - Heading 1 through 6
• Inline - Bold, Italic, Underline, Strikethrough, Superscript, Subscript, Code
• Blocks - Paragraph, Blockquote, Div, Pre
• Custom Classes - Styled, Left, Right