Email Text Component

Last update: June 24, 2025

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The Email Text Component is a rich text editing and composing component that features in-place editing.

Usage

The Email Text Component offers a robust rich text editor that allows for easy text editing in a simplified, in-line editor as well as a full screen format.

The edit dialog features in-line editing with limited options with full functionality available in the full-screen edit dialog.
Using the design dialog, text formatting options such as headings, special characters, and paragraph styles can be configured for the template for the content author.

Version and Compatibility

The current version of the Email Text Component is v1, which was introduced with release X of the Email Core Components in October 2022, and is described in this document.

The following table details all supported versions of the component, the AEM versions with which the versions of the component is compatible, and links to documentation for previous versions.

Component Version	AEM 6.5	AEM 6.5 LTS	AEM as a Cloud Service
v1	Compatible	-	-

For more information about Core Component versions and releases, see the document Email Core Components Versions.

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

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

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

Ctrl+I can be used as a keyboard shortcut.

Underline

Used to apply underlined formatting to selected text or underline text entered after the cursor.

Ctrl+U can be used as a keyboard shortcut.

Subscript

Used to format selected text or text entered after the cursor as subscript.

Superscript

Used to format selected text or text entered after the cursor as superscript.

Paste as Text

Pastes any copied text as plain text without any formatting.

When selecting this option, a window opens where the text can be pasted as plain text with no formatting as a preview before it is inserted into the text. Accept by tapping or clicking the check mark, cancel by tapping or clicking the x.

Paste as text example

Paste from Word

When selecting this option, a window opens where the text can be pasted maintaining its formatting as a preview before it is inserted into the text. Accept by tapping or clicking the check mark, cancel by tapping or clicking the x.

Paste from Word example

Hyperlink

Use this option to convert the selected text into a hyperlink or modify an already defined link. This option opens a window with additional options for setting the link.

Hyperlink example

Enter the path
- Use the Open Selection dialog to choose a path in AEM
- If the link is not within AEM, enter the absolute URL
  - Non-absolute paths are interpreted as relative to AEM
Enter alternative descriptive text for the link
Select link behavior
- Target
- Same Tab
- New Tab
- Parent Frame
- Top Frame

Tap or click the check mark to apply the link or the x to cancel.

Unlink

Use this option to remove a link already applied to the selected text. This option is only active when a link is already selected.

Anchor

Use this option to insert an anchor into the text.

Find

Use this option to search the text for occurrence of a specified text string. Selecting this option opens a window for specifying the search options.

Find example

Enter the text for which you want to search and tap or click Find to begin the search. Tap or click the x to cancel.
If you wish to do an exact match according to the case, select the option Match Case before starting the search.
If a match is found, it is highlighted and the search dialog is dimmed. Tap or click the Find button again in the dimmed dialog to search for the next occurrence.

Find example found

If no additional occurrences are found, a message will be displayed and the search will restart from the beginning of the text.

Find example no more occurrences

Replace

Use this option to search the text for occurrences of a specified text string and replace the matches with another string. Selecting this option opens a window for specifying the search and replace options.

Replace example

Enter the text for which you want to search as well as the text with which it should be replaced.

Tap or click Find to begin the search. Click or tap the x to cancel.
If you wish to do an exact match according to the case, select the option Match Case before starting the search.
Select Replace all to replace all occurrences of the text at once.

If a match is found, it is highlighted and the search dialog is dimmed. Click the Find button again in the dimmed dialog to search for the next occurrence or select the Replace button to replace the highlighted, matched text. The Replace button is only active once a match is made.

The find and replace dialog becomes transparent when find is clicked and becomes opaque when replace is clicked. This allows the author to review the text that the author will replace.

NOTE

When using the replace functionality, the string to be replaced should be entered at the same time as the string to be found. However you can still click find to search for the string before replacing it. If the replace string is entered after clicking find, the search is reset to the beginning of the text.

Undo

Used to undo the last edit in the rich text editor.

Redo

Used to undo an edit undone by using the undo icon.

Align Text Left

Used to align the text to the left margin.

Center Text

Used to center the text.

Align Text Right

Used to align the text to the right margin.

Bullet

Used to format the selected text as a bulleted list or begin the insertion of a bulleted list after the cursor.

To end a bulleted list, tap or click the Bullet button again or enter two carriage returns.

Numbered

Used to format the selected text as a numbered list or begin the insertion of a numbered list after the cursor.

To end a numbered list, tap or click the Numbered button again or enter two carriage returns.

Outdent

Used to decrease the indentation level of the selected text or text entered after the cursor.

Only active if the selected text or position of the cursor is already indented.

Indent

Used to increase the indentation level of the selected text or text entered after the cursor.

Table

Used to insert a table into the text. Selecting this option opens a window for specifying the details of the table.

Table example

Columns - The number of columns of the table (required)
Rows - The number of rows of the table (required)
Width - The width of the table
Height - The height of the table
Cell padding - The space around the cell content
Cell spacing - The space between cells
Border - The weight of the border lines of the table
- If for the header of the table:
  - The first row should be used
  - The first column should be used
  - The first row and first column should be used
  - Or no header should be used.
Caption - The caption of the table

Image

Used to align an inserted image.

Check Spelling

Used to check the spelling of the text content. Possible misspellings are underlined with broken, red lines.

Further details about spell checking and customizing spell check dictionaries can be found in the document Configure the Rich Text Editor Plug-Ins.

Special Characters

Used to insert special characters into the text. Selecting this option opens a window where the available characters are displayed.

Special characters example

Tap or click the desired character to insert it into the text after the cursor. Multiple characters can be inserted. Tap or click the x to close the selection window.

Source Edit

Used to view and modify the HTML source of the text.

Tap or click the Source Edit icon to change the content of the text from the formatted view to view the raw HTML. In this mode, all other formatting options are disabled. Tap or click the Source Edit icon again to return to the formatted view.

CAUTION

As always the case with access to raw HTML, care must be exercised when using the Source Edit option!

HTML entered via Source Edit is scanned for XSS risks and any scripts that are inserted are removed and will not appear on the resulting page. However malformed HTML entered in Source Edit can break the template for the page resulting in unexpected formatting or rendering the resulting page unusable.

NOTE

Because HTML entered via Source Edit is scanned for XSS risks and any scripts and automatically removes those found, the actual content persisted may vary from what was entered in Source Edit. For this reason, in order to save changes made using Source Edit, you must first exit Source Edit to view the text in the normal editor before saving.

Paragraph Format

Used to apply paragraph formatting to the selected text or to text inserted after the cursor. Selecting this option opens a dropdown from which the paragraph format is selected.

Paragraph format example

Select Adobe Campaign Variable

Opens the Select Adobe Campaign Variable dialog to insert dynamic content from Adobe Campaign.

In-Line Editing

The text component can be edited in-line as well. To edit in-line, select the Email Text Component on the content page.

Select Email Text component

Then tap or click the Edit icon on the toolbar that pops up over the component. The toolbar changes to show limited text formatting options (including access to the Select Adobe Campaign Variable option) and you can edit the text in-line.

In-line edit example

Tap or click the checkmark in the toolbar to save your changes or the X to discard.

Due to space restraints, not all formatting options are available in-line. To see all options, switch to full-screen mode.

Setting an ID

This option allows controlling the unique identifier of the component in the HTM.

If left blank, a unique ID is automatically generated for you and can be found by inspecting the resulting page.
If an ID is specified, it is the responsibility of the author to make sure that it is unique.
Changing the ID can have an impact on CSS.

Design Dialog

The design dialog allows the template author to define which text formatting options are available to the content authors.

Plugins Tab

The Plugins tab is used to enable and disable various text formatting options available to the content authors.

Features

Design dialog features

The following features can be activated or deactivated for the component.

Paste plain text
Past from word
Find and replace
Undo and redo
Spell checker
Inserted image modification options
HTML source editing

Formatting

Design dialog formatting

The following formatting options can be activated or deactivated for the component.

Table
Lists (bullet, number, indent, outdent)
Alignment (left, right, centered)
Bold, italic, underline
Linking (and unlinking)
Sub/superscript

Paragraph Styles

Design dialog paragraph styles

Paragraph styles can be activated or deactivated for the component. When activated, the allowed formats can be defined.

Tap or click the Add button to insert a new style.
Enter the code of the style and a description that will be displayed in the edit dialog.
To remove a style, tap or click the Delete button.
To rearrange the order of the formats, tap or click and drag the handles.

Special Characters

Design dialog special characters

The option to insert special characters can be activated or deactivated for the component. When activated, the allowed characters can be defined.

Tap or click the Add button to insert a new character.
Enter the HTML code of the character and a description that will be displayed in the edit dialog.
To remove a character, tap or click the Delete button.
To rearrange the order of the characters tap or click and drag the handles.

Styles Tab

The Email Text Component supports the AEM style system.

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