Text editor (Blog, Course sheet, Text material)
In some of the Foxize Cloud functionalities (Text material, Blog, Course sheet...) you will find a text editor to customize your content. Below, we explain what each of them does.
1. HTML source
HTML is a standard markup language for editing web pages. Knowing HTML allows you to further customize the text formatting beyond the options built into the editor.
Primarily, you can use the HTML source to:
Embed HTML email templates designed in other tools, such as Mailchimp.
Embed videos from YouTube or other platforms through embed codes.
Embed audio from platforms that offer embed code, such as Soundcloud, iVoox, or Spotify.
Embed presentations from tools such as Prezi, through embed codes.
2. New page
Delete all content to start over.
3. Preview
As its name suggests, the preview allows you to preview the edited content. You must keep in mind, however, that it is not a faithful representation of how it would look on your platform, since it does not appear laid out in the corresponding environment (email, article, material...).
The preview is useful to check that the formatting changes have been made correctly, that the links work and that the embedded videos look good.
4. Print
To print the created document. You can print it through the printer or convert it to PDF.
5. Templates
Allows you to add a pre-configured page structure, for example image + text, or two columns of text.
6. Paste
There are 3 paste options:
Paste: Paste copied content to the clipboard. It will be pasted with the same formatting as the source, i.e. it will keep the font, bold, links, etc.
Paste as plain text: The copied content will be pasted to the clipboard without formatting.
We recommend always using this option and shaping the text from the editor itself. This avoids that the content has a different typography from the platform and avoids design errors.
Paste from Word: Paste copied content to the clipboard. It will be pasted with the same format of origin.
9. Undo and redo
Undo the created text, or redo it.
Remember that if you make changes to the text, you will not be able to redo it again.
10. Find and Replace
Allows you to search for words in the text and replace them if necessary.
11. Select all
Selects all content.
12. Check spelling
Activate this option to receive spelling recommendations while editing the text.
13. Text formatting
You can set the formatting:
Bold
Italic
Underline
Strikethrough
Subscript
Superscript
14. Remove formatting
Remove the style of the selected text. This prevents the content from having a different typography from the platform and avoids design errors.
15. Numbering and bullets
Create numbered lists or bulletpoints.
16. Decrease or increase indentation
Modify the left margin of the text.
17. Citation
Highlights a text through the quotation format. It will add a slash and italicize the text.
18. Create DIV Container
A DIV container allows you to embed objects that you normally would not be able to, such as web pages.
The DIV container can misconfigure the layout and appearance of the page, so we recommend not to use this option if you are not experienced in using HTML.
19. Alignment
Aligns the text:
Left
Centered
Right
Justified
20. Text direction
You can set the text direction to go from left to right or right to left.
21. Insert/Edit or delete Link
Select a text or an image to insert a link.
The link can lead to an internal or external page, or lead to a download of a document from the server.
To do this, in the link information, select "view server". Drag a file to the server and select it. Now the text will also be a download button.
When inserting a hyperlink, we recommend that you set the destination as a new page.
22. References
References allow you to create links in the text itself. This is very useful for creating tables of contents.
To do this, create one or more references at the points you want to link in the text.
Then select the text in the table of contents you want to link and choose the option "Link type: Reference on this page".
23. Graphics
In the text editor, you can also add graphical materials such as:
Images
Tables
Horizontal lines (as a separator)
Special characters
Emoticons
Page break
iFrames
24. Typography
Like any text editor, you can make changes to the typography:
Choosing a style (header, paragraph...)
Font
Size
Text color
Background color
25. Maximize
Allows you to make the text editor bigger, so that it is more like editing.
26. Show blocks
Shows you the different content blocks, with information about them.
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