Formatting text

Format text in the Folioso editor with the toolbar, keyboard shortcuts or Markdown-style typing. This page covers text styles, headings, lists, quotes, links, alignment and tables.

The toolbar#

The formatting toolbar sits above the page whenever you can edit it. On a phone it's a single row you can scroll sideways.

Buttons that can't apply where your cursor is are greyed out. For example, inside an alert box only the text styles and Link work, and the alignment buttons are off inside a code block.

The toolbar is one stop when you press Tab. Use the left and right arrow keys, Home and End to move between its buttons.

Text styles#

Select text and click a toolbar button, use a shortcut, or type the Markdown markers around a word.

On a Mac, use ⌘ instead of Ctrl. Underline has no toolbar button, and it isn't kept when you export to Markdown.

Headings#

Use Heading 1, Heading 2 or Heading 3 on the toolbar, or type one to three # characters and a space at the start of a line: # , ## or ### . The keyboard shortcut is Ctrl Alt and the heading level, for example Ctrl Alt 2. Ctrl Alt 0 turns a heading back into a paragraph.

Once a page has two or more headings, an On this page outline appears beside the text on a wide screen. Click a heading in it to jump there. On a narrower screen it's under Outline, child pages and backlinks at the end of the page.

Lists#

• Press Tab to indent a list item under the one above, and Shift Tab to move it back out.
• Press Enter on an empty item to end the list.
• Tick a task item's checkbox to mark it done.

Quotes and dividers#

• Blockquote: click Blockquote, press Ctrl Shift B, or type > at the start of a line.
• Horizontal rule: click Horizontal rule, or type --- at the start of a line.
• Line break: press Shift Enter for a new line inside the same paragraph.

Links#

Link to a web page#

1. Select the text you want to link, or put your cursor where the link should go.
2. Click Link on the toolbar.
3. Type or paste the address and press Enter, or click Apply link.

If you typed an address without https://, Folioso adds it. With nothing selected, the address itself is inserted as linked text. To change a link, put your cursor in it and click Link again. To remove it, click Remove link, or clear the address and apply. Press Escape to close the box without changing anything.

Folioso refuses addresses that could run code, such as javascript: links.

Link to another page#

Type # to pick a Folioso page to link to. See Page links and mentions.

Alignment#

Align a paragraph, a heading or an image with Align left, Align centre or Align right, or with the shortcuts:

List items, task items and table cells follow the alignment of the paragraph inside them. Code blocks, diagrams and alert boxes can't be aligned. Alignment isn't kept when you export to Markdown.

Tables#

Click Insert table on the toolbar, or choose Table from the / menu, for a 3×3 table with a header row. You can't put a table inside another table.

• Move between cells with Tab and Shift Tab. Pressing Tab in the last cell adds a new row.
• Resize a column by dragging its border.
• Row and column options. Click the handle along a row's left edge or a column's top edge for Insert row above, Insert row below, Move row up, Move row down and Delete row, or the column versions: Insert column left, Insert column right, Move column left, Move column right and Delete column.
• Quick insert. Click a + between two rows or columns to insert one there.
• Whole table. Click the corner handle to select the table. Its options include Toggle header row, Toggle header column and Delete table.

When you're editing together, Folioso holds off adding, moving or deleting rows and columns, and deleting the table, while someone else is working in the same table, and tells you who's there. Typing in cells still works.

Undo and redo#

On a page you're editing with others, undo reverses your own changes, not theirs.

Leaving the editor with the keyboard#

Inside the page, Tab indents rather than moving focus. To move focus out, press Escape and then Tab. Further presses of Tab move through any block controls, such as a code block's language picker, and then out of the editor.

For every shortcut in one place, see Keyboard shortcuts.