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Text Area Paragraph is the most flexible tool you have with a variety of typography, image, and link styles. It makes it easy to update web pages without any knowledge of HTML.

The Text Area Paragraph is the meat and potatoes Paragraph. It includes all of the options you'll need to display your text through the "Normal" menu and "Styles" menu. You can set the different alignment of your text, add links (and style those links as buttons or action links), add images and video, unordered or ordered lists, tables, and quotes. You'll inevitably use is across your website (as generally speaking, the majority of Stanford websites are for text purposes). This section outlines how best to use your Text Area.

Editing options through Text Area paragraph #

Starting from left to right, here are the listed options:

wysiwyg options
  1. Bold

  2. Italic

  3. Left

  4. Center

  5. Right

  6. Horizontal Line

  7. Add/Edit Link

  8. Break Link

  9. Add Anchor Point

  10. Bullet List

  11. Number List

  12. Increase Indent

  13. Decrease Indent

  14. Table

  15. Quote

  16. Media

  17. Superscript

  18. Subscript

  19. Remove format (Note: This has been removed. Formatting will be removed automatically.)

  20. Source Code

  21. Paste from Word

  22. Accessibility Checker