A fancy new rich text editor
Websites are first and foremost about the content! Plasmic has completely rewritten its core text editor for both content editors and designers—so that you can focus on the content authoring experience, while also being able to fully customize its look. Let’s check it out!
Markdown. You can now directly enter Markdown blocks like headings, blockquotes, code, and numbered and bulleted lists. Each block or paragraph of text within a rich text element is its own element, which you can select and apply styling to. And you also get all the Markdown block shortcut keys you’re used to, like “#” for h1 and “-” for numbered lists.
Global and responsive styles. Any block of text (such as headers or code blocks, but even inline elements like links) will use the project-wide default styles, which you can edit. And, for those of who were paying attention in our last email update—yes, you can customize the styles per responsive breakpoint! So you can, say, ensure your headers aren’t gargantuan on mobile, and then just focus on your text-editing.
Inline links. Yes, you read that right folks, and you can read it again for effect. You can now insert inline links in your text! And these get hoisted out as normal elements which you can select and fully customize.
Arbitrary styles with inline spans. Markdown is great and all, but you’re not limited to Markdown or simple common formatting! Creating spans lets you treat a selection of text as its own element—something you can see in the left tree, select, name, apply arbitrary styling/attributes to (beyond typographic formatting), and override from code.
Bulleted and numbered lists. And access HTML customization settings for all your lists.
This is in fact just the beginning of how far we want to take the rich text editor in Plasmic. A ton of work went into simply laying the new foundation for all things to come.
In the meantime, please play with it and get at us with your feedback. Happy writing!