Use a rich text element

We use a rich text element to provide users with a rich text editor used to author a section of HTML. To create a rich text element, we can either add a rich text element to an authoring template, site area or content item, or create a rich text component.

• Create a rich text component
  We create a rich text component when to reuse a section of HTML in multiple places in the website, and to use a rich text editor to create and edit the HTML. A copyright notice is an example of the kind of HTML we could store in a rich text component.

• Add a rich text element to an item
  We add a rich text element to a site area or content item when we want a section of HTML to be used for a specific site area or content item and to use a rich text editor to create and edit the section of HTML.

• Add a rich text element to a template
  We add a rich text element to an authoring template when we want a section of HTML to be used by a set of items using the same authoring template and we want the content authors to use a rich text editor to create and edit the HTML.

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