Text

Body

To add text content to your page, in the components tab you will first select “Add Text” toward the bottom of the page.

Below you will find information about the fields available for this component.

Screenshot of backend text component in Drupal

Text Formatting: you can see the available formatting icons along the top of the editor. They include:

Heading style
Bold
Italic
Strikethrough
Superscript
Subscript
Link
Unlink
Anchor link
Bulleted list
Numbered list
Alignment
Table
Block quote
Add PDF
Insert Abbreviation
Remove formatting

You may also select “Source” to access the html and use the following html tags:

List of html tags

Once saved, your text component will look like this:

Screenshot of text component live

Adding Linked Files

Generally, you should avoid presenting content as linked files as these are difficult to make accessible and can also interrupt the reading experience in mobile and other browsing modes. When possible, add content to the website as Text and Image content as you see on this page. That said, there are some contexts where a PDF file is unavoidable, such as for a form that must be printed out with particular alignment and spacing. In these cases, PDF files can be added to the site. For maximum compatibility, only PDF files can be uploaded.

Note also that all files uploaded to the site are world-readable and cannot be made private or password protected. If you need to share files with particular cohorts you can share them with appropriate access restrictions via OneDrive, GoogleDrive, or MiddFiles and link to the file from the website.

Before you begin, you must upload the PDF to the Drupal system by following these steps:

1. Open the Content manager.