Overview of the Text Editor

The UMW Blogs text editor comes in two main views: the basic view and the kitchen sink view

Basic View
This is the basic view of the UMW Blogs text editor:

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Similar to a stripped-down MS Office or Google Docs interface, the text editor offers several options for formatting text and inserting media.

Here you can Upload/Insert images. You can edit the HTML by selecting the HTML tab at the top right corner. (Editing HTML is beyond the scope of this wiki, but w3schools has an excellent (and free) set of tutorials here.)

From left to right:


 * bold
 * italic
 * strikethrough
 * unordered list (bullet points like this list)
 * ordered list (numbers or letters)
 * block quotes
 * left justify
 * center justify
 * right justify
 * create a link
 * destroy a link
 * add a more tag
 * toggle spellchecker/change the language the spellchecker should use
 * toggle fullscreen mode
 * toggle kitchen sink mode
 * embed a video from YouTube
 * embed a video from DailyMotion
 * embed a video from Vimeo
 * embed a video from Veoh
 * embed a video from Blip.tv

Kitchen Sink
This is the kitchen sink view of the UMW Blogs text editor:

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Kitchen sink mode offers all the options that basic mode does, with some extra. From left to right:


 * change text format
 * underline text
 * full justify ('flush left and right' in this article)
 * change text color
 * paste from clipboard as plain text
 * paste from MS Word (with formatting)
 * remove formatting from a selection
 * select and insert custom character from this array

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 * outdent selection
 * indent selection
 * undo
 * redo
 * help