Formatting posts

Plain text alone can make posts and comments difficult to engage with. The Formatting Toolbar offers tools for applying colours, styles, hyperlinks, and images to make content clearer and more readable. Formatting text allows you to highlight important points, illustrate content with images, and link to internal or external sources.

Instructions on writing blog posts, creating events, and starting forum or project discussions are available in the corresponding sections. This article explains how to format them using the available tools.

After entering text in the text field, refer to the Formatting Toolbar at the top:

The following tools on the Formatting Toolbar allow you to format your text:

Undo/Redo

(undo) - use this tool to undo the last action.

(redo) - use this tool to redo the last undone action.

Font Formatting

(font name) - use this tool to change the font style of the text. By default, it is set to Open Sans.

(size) - use this tool to make the selected word or phrase larger or smaller.

(bold) - use this tool to highlight important words and give feeling to your text.

(italics) - use this tool to emphasize words or phrases.

(underline) - use this tool to highlight important words.

(strike through) - use this tool to cross out some words or phrases.

(text color) - use this tool to set a colour for the selected word or phrase.

(remove format) - use this tool to remove all formatting and restore the default colour and font size.

Background color

(background color) - use this tool to set the background colour for the selected text, word, or phrase.

Text and Paragraph Formatting

(left justify) - use this tool to left-align your text.

(center justify) - use this tool to centre your text.

(right justify) - use this tool to right-align your text.

(justify) - use this tool to justify your text, aligning it to both the left and right margins.

Lists and Indentation

(decrease indent) - use this tool to decrease the indentation of a paragraph or group of paragraphs.

(increase indent) - use this tool to increase the indentation of a paragraph or group of paragraphs.

(insert/remove numbered list) - use this tool to create or edit a numbered list.

(insert/remove bulleted list) - use this tool to create or edit a bulleted list.

Object Insertion

(image) - use this tool to add an image by entering its URL or uploading it to the server, and configuring additional parameters in the dialogue window.

(smiley) - use this tool to add an emoji to your post.

(block quote) - use this tool to add a quote from another author to your post.

Hyperlinks

(link) - use this tool to add a link to an internal or external source.

(unlink) - use this tool to delete the inserted link to an internal or external source.

Text Cut

(hide from preview) - "use this tool to truncate your post so that only the opening section is displayed on feed pages and the blog or discussion list page. A link to the full content will be inserted at the end of the displayed section.

Source

(source) - use this tool to switch to the HTML view of your text with all the related HTML tags.