The Libguide of Libguides: 1. Text Boxes

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• About Text Boxes
• Text Box Rich Text Editor
• Adding Text to Non-Text Boxes

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Text boxes -- or, more accurately -- Rich Text/Dynamic Content/Scripts boxes -- are the most basic and most flexibile type of content box in LibGuides.

Using the WYSIWIG (What You See Is What You Get) Rich Text Editor -- see the box at right -- text can be highlighted and formatted in many ways.

The HTML icon in the editor makes it possible to edit the HTML code, as well.

Icons (shown here) at the top of the Rich Text Editor make it possible to format text in a text box in many ways. Links and images can be added.Text can be made bold, italic, underlined, centered, bulleted, or numbered. Font styles and sizes can be changed. Please adhere to the style guide rules when making formatting decisions.

Text boxes also make it possible to add images and tables. (See the Add Images tab for more using on images.)

Advanced users can add search forms and other functions by adding scripts to Rich Text/Dynamic Content/Scripts boxes.

Add a Link

• Type in a title for the link and then highlight the text.
• In the Rich Text Editor toolbar click on the  icon.
• In the pop-up form type in the complete URL including http://.
• Set the target as Open Link in New Window.
• Leave the Title blank.
• Select Insert.
• Check the link in Preview mode to make sure it's working.

Every kind of box in LibGuides allows you to include text at the top of the box, using the same Rich Text Editor as the text box.

Simply click where it says add/text to access the editor. Text can only be entered at the top of non-text boxes.

The text you're reading now, for example, is at the top of a Simple Web Links box.  (The links below go to other pages with examples of text in non-text boxes.)