Complete Guide to Text Formatting in Squarespace: Editor Tools & Options

By Marcus Thompson

April 29, 2025 at 07:01 PM

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

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

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

Text editing toolbar in Squarespace

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