The page interface you will most commonly use to input your content is the WYSIWYG, an acronym that stands for "What You See Is What You Get". Here is the WYSIWYG panel you'll see:
Icons and their meaning:
- highlight text and click the B icon to make it bold
- highlight text and click the I icon to make it italic
- highlight text and click the S icon to insert a strikethrough
- Removes formatting from content
- Indent will move the paragraph inward to the right one tab space
- Outdent will move the text outward to the left one tab space until it hits the content margin edge
- Insert links to internal or external content, email addresses, anchor points and more
- Remove link; highlight the link text
- Insert and link to anchor points
- Insert bulleted list - (Fixing spaces that show up in your lists)
- Insert numeric list - (Fixing spaces that show up in your lists)
- Left align text
- Center align text
- Right align text
- Undo action
- Redo action
- Work directly with source code
- Maximize your WYSIWYG to full-screen editing mode. Uncheck the button to return to default view
- Apply pre-created styles to your content, review the available styles in PatternLab
- Insert from Media Library into the WYSIWYG region
- Insert file documents, such as .doc, .xsl, .pdf, etc.
- Insert media via a URL, such as a youtube or Vimeo video
- Horizontal line break
- Pull Quotes - Apply the blockquote style to your highlighted text
- Insert Table - NOTE: TABLES SHOULD ONLY BE USED FOR TABULAR DATA!
- Special Characters - WYSIWYG characters, special unicodes for subscripts, superscripts, and how to include proper accents
- Footnotes - insert a footnote or citation to create an automatically styled and positioned footnote at the bottom of your page.
- Widget menu. Use this drop-down menu to access the following features:
- Layout Columns widget - Allows users to create in-body layout options with from 1-4 columns with a variety of margins, spacing, and styles.
- Teaser Link Box - creates a clickable area that can include an image, caption, title, and text to link to internal pages or to external sites
- Feature Box - Provides a formatted title and text area to spotlight and feature a segment of content in your body text