New community features: Improved rich-text editor (WITH EMOJIS!)

CarolineS
Community Manager

We are pleased to announce some improvements to the Meraki Community’s rich text editor that should make your posting experience just a bit smoother:

 

  1. Drag-n-drop / Copy-paste images
  2. Image toolbar
  3. Improved editor toolbar

 

Update #1: Drag-n-drop / Copy-paste images

You can now drag images into the editor or even paste them directly!

 

Dragging an image into the editorDragging an image into the editor

 

 

Pasting an image into the editorPasting an image into the editor

 

 

Update #2: Image toolbar 

Once you’ve added an image to the editor, you can now adjust it easily with the new image toolbar. This allows you to align your image left, center, or right and also resize it.

 

New image toolbarNew image toolbar

 

 

Update #3: Improved editor toolbar

The editor has a newly streamlined toolbar; if you want more advanced controls, you can click the "..." icon for additional items.

Emoji menu item!

Most exciting about this new toolbar for me, personally, is the enhanced emoji menu item:

Emoji menu available from the toolbarEmoji menu available from the toolbar

 

No longer do you have to use clever keyboard commands to get the perfect emoji for your post (as I documented, a while back, here) — just click the little smiley face! 👍

 

Expanded formatting controls

Using the expanded view of the toolbar (available by clicking the “...” menu item), you can now add / edit tables and set text alignment. 

 

Expand the toolbarExpand the toolbar

 

 

Expanded viewExpanded view

 

 

Code formatting options

If you have code you'd like to share with the community, it will now be formatted nicely when you use the "Insert code sample" feature on the editor. Just click the "</>" icon, paste in your code, and select the language you are using.

 

Selecting the language of a code sampleSelecting the language of a code sample

 

We hope you find these updates useful; please let us know your thoughts in the comments!

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