Creating Rich Text

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This section describes some features of CKEditor that allow you to create truly rich content.

A document written in an advanced online editor like CKEditor can use the best of the two worlds: desktop environment and the Internet. The text you write can by formatted like in a desktop word processor, with various font variants, styles, and sizes, block quotes, alignment, or indentation.

However, do not forget to make use of the enormous possibilities of the Internet. CKEditor brings the whole spectrum of new media that can be inserted into your documents to enrich them and create a whole new quality.

In CKEditor the rich text features are grouped together on the toolbar. Most of them are simple buttons that turn the function on when you click them or open an appropriate dialog window.

Rich text buttons grouped on CKEditor toolbar


Check some of the elements that can be inserted into your texts:

Important note: Since some of these elements require additional server-side applications and permissions, not all of them may be available for a given CKEditor installation. If you have any doubts about their availability, contact your system administrator.