Help center article editor toolbar reference

The help center editor provides toolbars and shortcuts that you can use to format your articles and content blocks. This is not the same editor that is used in community posts.

The following table describes the toolbar options that are available for the article and content block editors. Because the tools vary depending on whether you are editing articles or content blocks, the table identifies each tool with an "Yes" or “No” in the editor columns to identify the editor that supports that tool.

Note: You can also format content blocks with Markdown, a simple markup language that you can use to add formatting to plain text. See Formatting text with Markdown.

Toolbar button	Name	Action	Article editor	Content block editor
	Headings	Insert HTML headings	Yes	Yes
	Bold	Bold or unbold text	Yes	Yes
	Underline	Underline or remove underline from text	Yes	Yes
	Italic	Italicize or remove italics	Yes	Yes
	Numbered list	Create or remove a numbered list	Yes	Yes
	Bulleted list	Create or remove a bulleted list	Yes	Yes
	Insert/edit link	Create or edit a link and link text. You can link to a URL, heading in the article, or another article. See Inserting links.	Yes	Yes
	Source code	View or edit the HTML source code	Yes	Yes
	Size	Increase or decrease font size	Yes	No
	Text color	Change text color using the color selector	Yes	No
	Align/indent	Align text left, center, or right; indent or outdent text	Yes	No
	Insert image	Insert an image using the file browser. The image file size limit is 20 MB. See Inserting images.	Yes	No
	Add video	Insert a video that is hosted on a supported service. See Inserting videos.	Yes	No
	Table	Create or modify tables using the menu options	Yes	No
	Block quote	Apply block quote styling to text. Block quotes are set apart from the main text as a paragraph with visual styling.	No	Yes
	Code block	(Content block editor) Creates a block of pre-formatted code. Each code block is assigned a specific programming language and supports basic editing tools (for example changing the line indentation). (Article editor) Creates a block of plain text that can be used to represent code.	Yes	Yes
	Code block type	Select or change the programming language that you want to apply to the code block.	No	Yes