Text formatting

The Brand Toolbox text formatting toolkit works much the same way as those found in most word processing applications (such as Microsoft Word).

Formatting buttons

The most familiar way to control formatting is via the formatting buttons. With these buttons, you can apply simple formatting such as Bold and Italic, as well as altering text alignment and creating bulleted and numbered lists.

Brand Toolbox Rich Text Editor Formatting Buttons

Regardless of the formatting being applied, the process for applying a format using the formatting buttons is always the same:

  1. Select the text you want to apply the formatting to.
  2. Click the formatting button to apply the formatting you wish to add.

Styles

Brand Toolbox Rich Text Editor Styles

Another way of apply formatting is via the Styles dropdown list. The styles list provides a set of predefined styles that can be applied to text whilst maintaining a consistent look and feel throughout the site.

These styles often incorporate more advanced formatting functionality, such as headings, sub headings and paragraphs. Whilst the styles available on your site may differ, the process for applying styles is always the same:

  1. Select the text you want to apply the style to.
  2. Select the style to apply from the Styles dropdown list.

Copying content from other programs

Text can be copied to Brand Toolbox from any other source programs. The important thing to remember is to correctly paste in the text.

Text should first be copied to a plain text application, such as TextEdit, SimpleText or OneNote. When using these text programs, ensure ‘plain text’ is selected.

By pasting content in this way, it ensures that only those formatting rules allowed by the system are kept and that the integrity of the site is maintained. If you do paste in formatted text from another application, you can remove some of the formatting from the text by following the process outlined in Removing formatting below.

Brand Toolbox Rich Text Editor Remove Formatting Button  Remove formatting

Using the Remove formatting button on selected text strips out any foreign formatting applied when pasting text from other programs. Note however that it is not 100% effective.

Brand Toolbox Rich Text Editor HTML Button  Show/Hide HTML code

If you are proficient in the use of HTML, you can switch to HTML mode and create your page by writing HTML code. You can also check the code and make minor adjustments here to get the page exactly as you want it.

Source code style

The rich text editor allows you to add stylistic formatting to programming language source code and markup. The “prettyprint” source code class beautifies the code snippet so typical formatting conventions, such as positioning and spacing (indent style), colour and contrast (syntax highlighting), make code content easier for people to view, read, and understand.

Source Code Style Image 2

To style a code snippet per the example above, add your source code to the rich text editor content window and enter HTML mode by clicking the HMTL Brand Toolbox Rich Text Editor HTML Button icon. Then place the following opening tag before the code block, <pre class="prettyprint">, and the following closing tag, </pre>, after the code block per the sample below:

Source Code Style Image Html Snippet

 
If your instance doesn’t have the ‘Source code’ style available, please contact the Brand Toolbox team: info@synrg.com.au

Note: If you prefer your source code snippet to not wrap within the text block (and thus remain horizontally and visually correct), please contact the Brand Toolbox team to adjust your CSS styles, as per the following:

Source Code Style Image Scrollable

Note to BT team:

In the ‘paragraph_styles’ css file, remove the following code from the ‘pre.prettyprint’ class:

white-space: pre-wrap;

and add:

overflow-x: auto;

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