# Rich text editor

> Format snippets with headings, lists, tables, links, images, and more, and keep that formatting when they expand.

Turn on **Rich / Dynamic Value** on a snippet (or **Rich / Dynamic Content** on a Block) to write with the rich text editor. It gives you real formatting, and it’s where you add the pills that make a snippet dynamic.

## Formatting

The toolbar has what you’d expect from a modern editor:

| Tool | What it does |
| --- | --- |
| Text style | **Paragraph**, **Heading 1**, **Heading 2**, **Heading 3**, **Code**, **Code block** |
| Font and size | Arial, Georgia, Verdana, Courier New, and more, from 8 to 48 px |
| Colors | **Text color** and **Highlight**, each with a reset |
| Emphasis | **Bold**, **Italic**, **Underline**, **Strikethrough**, and **Clear text formatting** |
| Alignment | Left, center, right, and justify |
| Lists and more | **Bullet list**, **Numbered list**, **Quote**, **Horizontal line** |
| Links | Web, `mailto:`, and `tel:` links, with or without an underline |
| Images | Insert by HTTPS link, or upload a GIF, JPEG, PNG, or WebP up to 10 MB |
| Tables | Data tables, or **Borderless layout** tables for side-by-side columns |
| Cards | A box with its own background, padding, border, and corners |

Uploaded images are resized to at most 1,200 pixels wide and compressed, so your snippets stay light. Click an image to set its size, alignment, border, corners, alt text, or a link.

> [!TIP]
> Use a **Borderless layout** table to put a logo next to your name and contact details in an email signature. Tables are the most reliable way to line things up side by side in email.

## Add Fields, Smart Fields, and Blocks

This is where the editor shines. You can add three kinds of pills:

- Type `{{` to pick a [Field](https://simplefill.app/docs/fields), a [Smart Field](https://simplefill.app/docs/smart-fields), a [calculation](https://simplefill.app/docs/calculations), an [If / Else](https://simplefill.app/docs/conditions), a [key press](https://simplefill.app/docs/key-presses), or a [Click](https://simplefill.app/docs/mouse-actions).
- Type `@` to pick a [Block](https://simplefill.app/docs/blocks). This works in snippets; Blocks can’t contain other Blocks.
- Or use the **Insert field** menu in the toolbar, which groups everything: **Basic Fields**, **Calculations**, **Conditions**, **Custom Fields**, the Smart Fields by category, like **Page** and **Date & Time**, **Key Presses**, **Mouse Actions**, and each [add-on](https://simplefill.app/docs/add-ons)’s fields under its name, like **HubSpot**.

Pills look like small labels in your text. When the snippet is inserted, each pill is replaced with its value.

## Pill settings

Click a pill to open its settings:

- **Alias**: A display name for this pill only. If you use the same Field twice, SimpleFill names the copies for you, like *Name 2*.
- **Transforms**: Steps that reshape the value before it goes in, run top to bottom. See [Transforms](https://simplefill.app/docs/transforms).
- **Field settings**: For a one-off Basic Field, its type, default, and options.
- **Link fields**: Make two pills share one value, so you only fill it in once.

Click **Save changes** when you’re done.

## Basic Fields: one-off blanks

For a blank only one snippet needs, choose **Insert field** > **Basic Fields** instead of creating a Custom Field. It lives only inside this snippet. See [Basic and Custom Fields](https://simplefill.app/docs/fields#basic-fields-blanks-for-one-snippet).

## What can’t go in rich content

For safety, SimpleFill keeps a known set of formatting and strips anything else when you save: scripts, forms, embedded frames, and links to unsafe addresses never make it into a snippet. Images must use HTTPS or be uploaded.

Source: https://simplefill.app/docs/rich-text-editor