Builder brands: Editing text

Nothing is more critical on your website than the message it portrays through its content. Since creating text will be an area where you spend most of your creative energy, your website editor quickly copies, pastes, and formats your written words into professionally stylized text. To know how to add text on your website, check our Adding text article.

In this article, we will discuss

• Editing text toolbar settings
• Text toolbar advanced settings

Editing text toolbar settings

When you single-click on text from within the builder, a toolbar will appear over the selected text field with some essential tools to adjust your content.

• Change text style: to one of the presets available (Heading 1, Heading 2, Paragraphs, etc.)
  
  
   
• Change font: from the preset template. (more fonts available in More Fonts)
  
  
   
• Change font size: The physical size of the text.
  
  
   
• Change text alignment
  
  
   
• Bold, Italic, Underlined, or Strikethrough Text
  
  
   
• Link the text to a page or URL.
  
  
   
• Add text color
  
  
   
• Highlight text
  
  
   
• Add a shadow to your text.
  
  
   
• Add an animation
  
  
   
• Bring the element forward (above other elements).
• Send element back (put it behind another element.)
• Duplicate text field
• Delete text field
  
  
   
• More options

More settings:

1. Click on More from the text toolbar to reveal an expanded menu.
   
   
    

From the More Toolbar, you can:

• Adjust letter spacing (Example VS. E x a m p l e)
• Adjust line height (Reduce or expand the spacing between lines of text.)
  
  
   
• Add subscript or superscript (Smaller text placed next to or above standard-sized text.)
  
  
   
• Add a number list or bullet points.
  
  
   
• Change box color (Change the background color of the textbox.)
• Change border color (This changes the border color of the textbox.)
  
  
   
• Change border width
  
  
   
• Change border radius (Use this to change the degree of sharpness of the textbox corners.)
  
  
   
• Add a background image to text.
  
  
   
• Add padding around the textbox.
  
  
   
• Change docking location (left, centered, stretched, or right).
  
  
   
• Add a drop shadow to the text.
  
  
   
• Add a glow to text.
  
  
   
• Clear formatting.
  
  
   
• Advanced settings.
  
  

Text toolbar advanced settings

Although there are a lot of the same options in the Advanced Settings as there are in the text toolbar, you can adjust quite a few more settings from this section.

1. Click the Advanced tab from the Text Toolbar to open the Text settings pop-up menu.
   
   
    
2. Some of the more important features here are the SEO elements, behaviors, style, size, position, and animations.
   
   

The best recommendation we can make is to start by getting in there and testing out all the options to see what they do. Add some sample text, run through the settings, and change things. Delete the text when finished. As you become familiar with what you can/can't do and new ways to go about customizing your Elements, remember, this builder is always changing and growing.