Rich Text Editor (RTE)

We’d like to provide you with a break down of each of the different components of the Rich Text Editor (RTE). The RTE supports two slightly different sets of formatting features, for Discussions and User Tip creation.

When you’re creating or participating in a discussion, the following content formats are enabled in the content editor.

Bold

To access bold text option, press on “Aa” button.

Then press on “B” button.

Once selected, bold text button (“B”) will be highlighted.

You can either pre-select text that you would like to make bold and then press “Bold” button or you can press button first and then enter a text in bold.

When on your Mac you can also use “Cmd+B” shortcut to activate or deactivate bold text formatting.

To go back to the main editor toolbar view, press on close (“X”) button on the right.

Italic

When on your Mac you can also use “Cmd+I” shortcut to activate or deactivate italic text formatting.

Underline

“Cmd+U” shortcut will activate or deactivate underline text formatting on your Mac.

Quote

When you are replying to someone else’s post created in a new content editor, pressing on a quote button for the first time will quote an entire post are replying too.

Pressing “enter” on an empty line of the quote format will remove an empty line and exit from the quote format.

Note: quote format was designed to be used in chatty discussions to quote your interlocutors. Because of that, if you’d like to quote an image or let’s say a log insertion, it will be downgraded to a plain text, similar to how Mail app does it on your Mac or iOS device when you reply to a message with an attachment.

If you would like to quote an article, there is no need in quotation format, just paste the content in.

Indent

Outdent

Numbered list

You can also create numbered list by typing “1.” and then pressing “space”.

If you are on the empty line of the list format, pressing “enter” will remove empty list point and exit from the list format.

Bullet list

You can also create bullet list by typing “*” or “-“ and then pressing “space”.

Code block

If you are on the empty line inside of the code block, pressing “enter” twice will remove empty lines at the end of the code block and will exit from the code block format.

Link

To insert a link, press on a link button.

Then type of paste a URL into input field.

And press “enter” or click on a link icon on the left of the input field.

If you typed or pasted a link to Apple Support article editor will automatically fetch a title of the article and use it as a link text.

You can also type of past a URL directly into the editor. In this case URL will be automatically converted into a link when you press “space” or “enter” continuing your input flow.

Note: the editor will only fetch a title of the Apple Support article when you use its URL in a link format tool from the editor toolbar.

To edit a text of your link, simply place the cursor in a desired place and correct the text.

To edit the URL of your link, simply place the cursor anywhere on a link text and click on a link icon in the toolbar. Then edit the url and press “enter” or click on a link icon on the left side of the input field.

You can also use “Cmd+K” shortcut on your Mac instead of pressing link button in the editor toolbar to jump right into entering link URL.

Log insertion

To insert a log or debugging information, press on a log icon in the toolbar.

Then insert a title and actual content of your log in the dialog.

When you click on the “Add text” button, the log attachment will appear in the editor.

To remove the log attachment, simply place your cursor right after the log and press “delete” on your keyboard.

Image insertion

YouTube video insertion

To insert a YouTube video, click on YouTube icon on the toolbar.

Insert a URL to a video.

If you link to a video published on Apple or Apple Support channels, it will be inserted as an embedded video that can be played in place.

If video belongs to any other channel, it will be inserted as a regular link.

User Tips

When you are creating user tip, you can also use:

Text styles

To access text styles, click on the “Text style” drop down button.

Select one of the options.

Text alignment

If you need any help, hover your cursor over (or when using an iPad, tap) the help icon.

On your iPhone, the editor only has the insert image option available in the toolbar.

You can also apply basic text formatting using iOS build in formatting by selecting and double tapping selected text.

Happy posting!