The Rich Text Editor (RTE) is a basic building block for inserting textual content into AEM. It forms the basis of various components, including:
Selecting a text-based component with a single click will reveal the component toolbar as with any component.
Tapping/clicking agin or initially selecting the component with a slow double-click opens in-place editing, which has its own toolbar. Here you can edit the content and make basic formatting changes.
This toolbar provides the following options:
For text-based components, tapping the full-screen mode from the toolbar opens the rich text editor and hides the rest of the page content.
Fullscreen mode displays all the configured options that you can use for authoring. The availability is options depends on the configuration.
Additional rich text editor options include:
Close fullscreen mode by clicking the minimize icon.
Copying nested lists from Microsoft Word into the RTE can give inconsistent results and may require manual adjustement after pasting the text in the RTE.