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 a "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
	Heading selector	Select the HTML heading you want to apply to the text.	Yes	Yes
	Formatting selector	Select the formatting that you want to apply to the text (bold, underline, italic, or block quote).	No	Yes
	Bold	Bold or unbold text.	Yes	Yes
	Underline	Underline or remove underline from text.	Yes	Yes
	Italic	Italicize or remove italics.	Yes	Yes
	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
	Size selector	Increase or decrease font size.	Yes	Yes
	Text color selector	Change text color using the color selector.	Yes	Yes
	Text background color selector	Change text background color using the color selector.	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 selector	Select or change the programming language that you want to apply to the code block.	No	Yes
	Bulleted list	Create or remove a bulleted list.	Yes	Yes
	Numbered list	Create or remove a numbered list.	Yes	Yes
	Align/indent selector	Align text left, center, or right; indent or outdent text.	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
	Insert image	Insert an image using the file browser. The image file size limit is 20 MB. See Inserting images.	Yes	Yes
	Add video	Insert a video that is hosted on a supported service. See Inserting videos.	Yes	No
	Source code	View or edit the HTML source code.	Yes	Yes
	Table	Create or modify tables using the menu options.	Yes	No
	Insert content block (Enterprise plans only)	Insert a content block into the article. See Creating and inserting reusable information with content blocks.	Yes	No