Complete Guide to Text Formatting in Squarespace: Editor Tools & Options
Text Formatting Guide: A Comprehensive Overview
The text toolbar provides essential formatting options to enhance your content's appearance and readability. Here's everything you need to know about text formatting options:
Basic Text Formatting
- Bold: Click the B icon to emphasize text
- Italics: Use the I icon for italic formatting
- Alignment: Left, center, right, or justified text alignment options
- Lists: Create numbered or bulleted lists
- Indentation: Adjust paragraph indents using increase/decrease icons
Heading Styles
Four levels of headings available:
- Heading 1 (h1)
- Heading 2 (h2)
- Heading 3 (h3)
- Heading 4 (h4)

Text formatting menu
Special Formatting Options
- Text Highlighting: Choose from multiple styles including underline, wave, cross, and circle
- Link Creation: Link to external pages, internal content, files, emails, or phone numbers
- Quote Formatting: Add professional quote styling
- Code Display: Format text as code with monospace styling

Squarespace menu toolbar icons
Advanced Features
- Scale Text: Automatically adjust text size to fill block width
- Remove Formatting: Strip all formatting with one click
- Paste as Plain Text: Remove inherited formatting when copying from external sources
- Custom Animation: Add movement to highlighted text with various animation options

Text editing toolbar in Squarespace
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