LibGuides @NCC: Getting Started: 1. Text Boxes

Text boxes -- or, more accurately -- Rich Text/Dynamic Content/Scripts boxes -- are the most basic and most flexibile type of content box in LibGuides.

Using the WYSIWIG (What You See Is What You Get) Rich Text Editor -- see the box at right -- text can be highlighted and formatted in many ways.

The HTML icon in the editor makes it possible to edit the HTML code, as well.

Icons (shown here) at the top of the Rich Text Editor make it possible to format text in a text box in many ways. Text can be made bold, italic, underlined, centered, bulleted, or numbered. Font styles, sizes, and colors can be changed. Links can be added.

Text boxes also make it possible to add images and tables. (See the Add Images tab for more using on images.)

Advanced users can add search forms and other functions by adding scripts to Rich Text/Dynamic Content/Scripts boxes.

Every kind of box in LibGuides allows you to include text at the top of the box, using the same Rich Text Editor as the text box.

Simply click where it says add/text to access the editor. Text can only be entered at the top of non-text boxes.

The text you're reading now, for example, is at the top of a Simple Web Links box.  (The links below go to other pages with examples of text in non-text boxes.)