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Content - Rich Text

Options for adding text to your pages

Content (Rich Text)

The text you are now reading was inserted into the page, using our most commonly-used content type: 'Content (Rich Text)'.
This content type allows you to add a headline and rich text (i.e. text and images). The text you enter into it will take up the available width on the webpage.

The 'Content (Rich Text)' content type requires you to add a 'Name', 'Title', and 'Content'

As with all content types, 'Name' allows you identify this content in the CMS - it does not appear on the published web page.
'Title' appears as a H2 Headline on the published webpage
'Content' appears below the headline.

Our 'Content (Rich Text)' content types can contain up to 100,000 characters (enough for 33 single-spaced A4 pages). So the content you add into it can be as long (or as short) as you like.

Using Multiple Content Types

Usually, instead of having a single content type (CT), containing a very long block of text and images, editors decide to add multiple CTs, each containing shorter blocks of content.

This approach enables you to segment your content, keeping related text and images together.
And segmenting your content makes it easier to:

Re-order your page content (change the flow).
Add other content types in between your existing blocks of content.
(Less commonly) Share your content with other web pages.

Content (no title)

When taking this approach, you will not want to have a headline on each segment you create - so you should use 'Content (Rich Text)' for the first one (to create a headline at the top of the page) and then use the 'Content (no title)' content type for any others.
As its name suggests, 'Content (no title)' is exactly like 'Content (Rich Text)', except that it doesn't ask for a title - so no headline will appear above the content you place into it.

'Content (no title)' content is seamlessly added to the page. To demonstrate this, we deliberately switched from a 'Content (Rich Text)' to a 'Content (no title)' just before adding the above line that mentions 100,000 characters.

Content Boxes

Content boxes are another way to add rich text into your page. They are broadly similar to 'Content (Rich Text)' - inserting a headline, followed by rich text content. However, there are differences:

The headline they create is a H3 - instead of the H2 that Content (Rich Text) creates.
That headline is styled to use a strong background colour and white text - the text below the headline appears as normal.
Optionally, the entire content box can use the headline's background colour. This makes all its text white (if the background colour is dark) or else black (for lighter background colours).
Content Boxes can fill the available width on the page - but you can also specify that they only take up a certain width.

See our content box example page.

Images

All Rich Text content types allow you to add foreground images alongside the text. See the foreground images example page for more information.

Accessibility Considerations

If a content type requires a 'Title', never leave it blank (by entering ' ' instead of some text) - this creates unwanted vertical whitespace and, more importantly, hinders people who rely on accessibility tools such as Screen Readers.