Underline text in editor
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Pam Hagan
I am interested in the underlining feature in the Communications text box, when sending messages. I use BOLD, but would like the option of underlining. If the feature is there, would you please instruct as to where to find it. Thank you.
Wes Cossick
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Lisa Labella
And bold option.
Meredith Owens
Lisa Labella: You can currently bold the text within both the full-text and simplified editors! To do so, click on the 'B' icon in the editor menu.
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Lisa Labella
Meredith Owens thanks, I missed that!
Pam Mitchell
Formatting options for: underline, font selection and font color selection would be helpful
Meredith Owens
Pam Mitchell: The ability to change the font family and text color are currently available in the editor! Where to find this in the editor menu is highlighted below.
Pam Mitchell
Meredith Owens - You are correct regarding the editor for pages with the type as Home Page, General Text or Document. Sorry I was not specific, I am interested in those editing features for the News Articles. Is there a reason the other types have the selections but not News Articles?
Meredith Owens
Pam Mitchell: Thank you for clarifying, and I'd be happy to explain this further! The simplified text editor uses the plain text syntax language and is designed to be simple for professional, easy-to-read, and concise formatting. This editor is intentionally designed to create less advanced formatting, either because the medium doesn’t support more advanced options or it would cause other issues that make it impractical.
In areas where the simplified editor isn't needed, we've equipped the page with a fully featured text editor with more robust formatting tools and options. This allows you to create more complex formatting and layouts.
For those reasons, we don't plan to change the editor used on the "News articles" page type.
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Vicki Pappas
Could text color be another added option?
Meredith Owens
Vicki Pappas: This is currently available in the text editor! To change the text or highlight color, click on the two menu options highlighted in the screenshot below.
Bonnie Clements
Underlining option would be a nice addition, as well as an option to Center headings or announcements on a page.
Wes Cossick
Bonnie Clements: Text on a page can be centered by using the alignment feature in the toolbar:
Bonnie Clements
Wes Cossick, that feature does not appear on my page for adding information to calendars.
Meredith Owens
Bonnie Clements: The alignment options mentioned by Wes previously is available with the full-text editor. I'm afraid the "Notes" section for calendar events uses a simplified text editor. This type of editor doesn't provide alignment options for text or images added.
Bonnie Clements
Meredith Owens, thank you for clarifying.
John Schlitter
Are there text formatting commands in the new CKEditor to create tables like the previous Markdown editor?
Wes Cossick
John Schlitter: Hi John, can you clarify what you’re referring to by “commands” in relation to the text editor?
John Schlitter
Wes Cossick Sorry, I should have said text formatting syntax. Take a look at the "markdown cheatsheet here: https://www.markdownguide.org/cheat-sheet/ and look for "Table" and see the sample below.
Since Pre-CKEditor News articles used Markdown, the table formatting syntax was used to create tables. I was wondering if the new CKEditor has its own syntax to format text and if so specifically to create tables.
Meredith Owens
John Schlitter: Providing this ability would be a separate feature request. However, we would be open to looking into adding this ability to the simplified editor.
Therefore, we've created a new post and added your vote there! You can view this using the following link: https://feedback.hoa-express.com/feature-requests/p/create-tables-in-simplified-editor.