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Text editor changed
Hi SergeiBaklan and Haytham Amairah
I can confirm I am currently working with Lithium to allow more styles and functions to be leveraged directly within the editor. Lithium hit a problem when deploying it on our staging enviroment so we halted roll out to production.
Clearly that 'halt' seems to have slipped at some point and so you got an early preview. We have allot more changes and improvements coming to the editor and this will just be the beginning.
Before June 2019 I am expecting to be able to give you all the ability to embed images using copy and paste and not have to upload the images using the photo's button, for example.
That would be great. I just joined the techcommunity today, wrote my first post and tried inserting an image to clarify the problem, tried a lot and finally gave up.
Thanks.
- AllenOct 24, 2018
Community Manager
Hi all,
The first lot of changes are now enabled for the editor, these are the options we now support:
Paste - Allows you to paste in text, currently this does not support images or media
Bold - Makes your text bold
Italic - Makes your text display in italics
Underline - Underlines your text
Strikethrough - Allows you to strike a line through
your textSpoiler Tag - Allows you to hide some content from first viewing until the viewer clicks a link to
SpoilerSee what is in the spoiler tagInsert Code - Allows you to insert code into a box that makes it easier to read.
Does not currently support syntax highlighting
Insert Emoticon - :heart: we plan to review and update these shortly.
Insert / Edit link - Allows you to insert or edit a link in your text
Insert Photos - You can upload and display photos in your posts using this link
Insert Video - Same as photos but not all users can use this button. If you do not see this button you can not use it.
Numbered List - Lets you create a list of ordered items
Bullet List - Lets you create a list of bullet items
Text Color - Let's you have different color text
Size - Allows you to choose different size text in your posts - This one is tightly managed under our acceptable use policy. We reserve the right to edit, delete, remove or ban users who make inappropriate use of large text sizes.
Anchor - This allows you to create an Anchor point in your post. You can then share a link directly to your anchor point but putting #AchorName after the url.
Align Left - Left align your text
Align Center - Center align your text
Align Right - Right align your text
Justify - Makes your text justify across the screen size when it wraps on to a new line.
Left to right (default) - When you compose your message in a language that reads left to right this option should always be selected and is the default for the community
Right to left - works the same way as left to right but is designed for languages that read right to left
Blockquote - used to quote text from another thread or board, if your quoting someone from the existing thread use the blue Quote button.
This is a quote using Blockquote
Subscript - Used for writing your text in subscript
Superscript - used for writing your text in superscript
- SergeiBaklanOct 24, 2018Diamond Contributor
Hi Allen,
Do you have summary info for the keyboard shortcuts which work with this editor?
Thank you
- AllenOct 24, 2018
Community Manager
Thanks for a great question, which I didn't even know so I went a did some research and this is what I have found so far:
Action PC Mac Bold Ctrl+B Command+B Italic Ctrl+I Command+I Underline Ctrl+U Command+U Select All Ctrl+A Command+A Redo Ctrl+Y / Ctrl+Shift+Z Command+Y / Command+Shift+Z Undo Ctrl+Z Command+Z Header 1 Alt+Shift+1 Ctrl+Alt+1 Header 2 Alt+Shift+2 Ctrl+Alt+2 Header 3 Alt+Shift+3 Ctrl+Alt+3 Header 4 Alt+Shift+4 Ctrl+Alt+4 Header 5 Alt+Shift+5 Ctrl+Alt+5 Header 6 Alt+Shift+6 Ctrl+Alt+6 Div Alt+Shift+8 Ctrl+Alt+8 Address Alt+Shift+9 Ctrl+Alt+9 Insert link Ctrl+K Command+K Save Ctrl+S Command+S I will do some digging to see if I can find out the rest of them and will update this thread
- SergeiBaklanOct 24, 2018Diamond Contributor
Good job Allen, thank you