Technical Details

The latest technical documentation about the Email Text Component can be found on GitHub.

Further details about developing Core Components can be found in the Core Components developer documentation.

The Email Text Component and the Rich Text Editor

The Email Text Component leverages the AEM Rich Text Editor (RTE). The RTE provides content authors with a wide range of functionality for editing their text content. The RTE is flexible in its configuration and offers a number of options. Further details about how the RTE can be configured can be found in the articles Configure the Rich Text Editor and Configure the Rich Text Editor plug-ins.

The remainder of this document demonstrates the standard configuration of the Email Text Component with the out-of-the-box RTE configuration.

NOTE
Only options enabled by UI configurations of the RTE are available in the Email Text Component.

Edit Dialog

Text Component's edit dialog

Formatting Options

The edit dialog offers the standard rich text formatting tools that a user would expect to compose text.

Bold

Bold icon

Used to apply bold formatting to selected text or boldly format text entered after the cursor.

Ctrl+B can be used as a keyboard shortcut.

Italic

Italic icon

Used to apply italicized formatting to selected text or italicize text entered after the cursor.

Ctrl+I can be used as a keyboard shortcut.