Working with Text Components

The 'Text Component' section within the 'Article Builder' is comprised of pre-formatted text items including headline, subtitle, paragraph and blockquote and many more. Once placed onto the canvas, content can be typed or pasted into the component. 

The overall look and feel of these text components is defined by the style currently applied to the article. In most cases the applied style will ensure the content looks and feels as you require, however it is possible for content to be further customised from within the 'Article Builder'.

Customising inline content

1. Highlight the text you'd like to format.

   

   
   
2. The 'Text Editor Toolbar' will appear, allowing you to apply the following inline styling:

• Colour (background and text)
• Italic
• Bold
• Underline
• Superscript & Subscript
• Special Characters

1. Remove formatting
2. Ordered and unordered lists
3. Alignment
4. Indent & outdent
5. Link

To change font style, padding and other text styles you can edit the style being applied to the article. Alternatively, you can use a 'Custom Style Block' if you require part of your article to have different text formatting to the main article body.

To change the colour pallet available when in-line formatting text, check our 'Customising Publication Colours' article.

Splitting Text Components

Text components can be split by adding a break. This is especially useful for when pasting large amounts of content, but wanting to separate sections for better styling control or to add additional components such as subtitles or images.

Once a break is created in a body of text, a new drop-location can be seen when dragging a component into that break, as demonstrated in the following video: