Editing Text in the Post Editor

Blogger's post editor has three modes:

• Compose: a wysiwyg mode where you manipulate text with formatting buttons
• Edit HTML: a raw mode where you edit the html manually
• Preview: renders a full-body preview of the post, including its Title, links and images

To switch between these modes, simply click the appropriate link:

If you'd rather not use the wysiwyg editor, you can disable it in the Settings | Basic tab in Blogger. Keyboard shortcuts are also available; they can greatly speed up the posting process and we encourage you to use them.

Features, from left-to-right:

• Undo
• Redo
• Font
• Font size
• Headings
• Bold
• Italic
• Strikethrough
• Font color
• Background color
• Link
• Image
• Video
• Jumpbreak
• Justify text
• Ordered (numbered) list
• Unordered (bullet) list
• Blockquote
• Spell check
• Upload image
• Remove formatting from selection

Developing an advanced, standards-compliant web-based rich text editor presented a significant engineering challenge. If you'd like to know more about its development, one of our engineers posted a nice writeup about it on his blog.