Aurora: Use keyboard shortcuts and Markdown to work faster
While creating or editing community content, you can make use of keyboard shortcuts and keyboard navigation to work faster and more efficiently.
The Content Editor also supports Markdown. Markdown is a plain text formatting syntax commonly used by writers and programmers to write quickly without having to take time using the RTE toolbar options.
For example, to bold a word, like “Dishes," you can type **Dishes** instead of having to highlight the text and click the Bold icon in the editing toolbar.
In other example, to insert an emoji, you can type colon (:) along with the emoji name and select the required emoji from the search results:
While creating or editing any content, you can refer to the Editor Help for assistance using these tools.
View the Editor Help by clicking the Options icon > Help in the toolbar.
Note: The Editor Help recognizes if you are using a Mac or Windows machine and displays the appropriate keyboard shortcuts and commands.
The Editor Help provides the information about these aspects:
- Shortcuts: Use keyboard shortcuts to quickly apply standard text and paragraph formatting (for example, bold, italics, paragraph headers) to your content.
- Keyboard Navigation: Describes how you can navigate community pages using the keyboard instead of a mouse to meet accessibility requirements.
- Markdown syntax: Lists the markdown syntaxes you can use while writing the content instead of formatting the text using toolbar options. For example, to apply Heading 1 while starting a paragraph to a word - “Content Editor” you can type # Content Editor instead of having to highlight the text and click the Heading 1 option in the editing toolbar.
Similarly, you can use other markdown syntaxes to format the content.
Let’s look at an example where you want to refer to the Editor Help while creating a discussion.
To view the Editor Help, Check out the below walkthrough:
