Formatting Bar

At the top of the editor window is a bar containing a combination of information fields and buttons, called the formatting bar:

By default it consists of a single row of controls, but it may have a second row containing custom formatting buttons (as in the example shown above).

The top row contains three groups of controls:

• An item summary where the following information about the content item is displayed:

  Content type

  The type of the content item (News in the example above)

  Home section

  The content item's home section (New articles in the example above). If the content item belongs to more than one section then you can change the home section by clicking on this button and selecting a new section from the displayed list.

  Think carefully before changing a published content item's home section, as doing so will change its URI.

  ID

  The content item's ID. For a new article that has not been saved yet, this field is blank.

• A row of buttons offering formatting options such as bold, italic, subscript and superscript, text alignment, headings, lists, tables, links, images and so on. The formatting buttons in the bar may vary from publication to publication. The buttons are only enabled when a rich text field is selected (see Editing Rich Text).

• The attributes panel button. Clicking on this button shows and hides the attributes panel (see Attributes Panel).