Text Box Widgets
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MangoApps User Guide
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The widget gallery allows you to add various text-based widgets, offering different styles and formatting options to customize the display of textual content.
These widgets give you the flexibility to choose the right type of text formatting based on your needs, whether you're posting simple notes, detailed reports, or visually engaging content.
The Text widgets available include:
Basic Text Box
Rich Text Box
Rich Text Box with Media
Wraparound Text with Media
The Basic Text Box provides a simple, clean format for entering plain text. It supports basic formatting, making it suitable for straightforward content like announcements, lists, or instructions. This widget is best used when minimal styling is needed.
Example Use:
Displaying simple notes or single sentences.
Providing quick updates with minimal distractions.
The Rich Text Box allows for more structured text formatting. It supports the use of headers, bullet points, and other rich text formatting options. Content can be organized into sections, making it ideal for detailed outlines or documents that require headings and subheadings.
Features:
Markdown support for titles, bullet lists, and indented text.
Best for outlines, structured content, or instruction guides.
Example Use:
Creating an outline of update types
Drafting articles or reports with detailed hierarchical content.
The Rich Text with Media widget combines rich text formatting with embedded media, such as images or videos.
This widget is perfect for creating engaging content to supplement text with visual aids or multimedia.
Features:
Markdown support for text formatting.
Capability to insert media such as images or videos.
Example Use:
Introducing new features with accompanying media, such as embedding screenshots, product images, or instructional videos to enrich the content.
The Wraparound Text with Media widget allows media elements (like images) to be wrapped with text on either side.
This layout is useful to maintain a balance between textual information and visuals without them being in separate blocks.
Features:
Media (images or videos) is embedded within the text, allowing the content to flow around the visual elements.
Offers a professional and well-structured appearance, combining both textual and visual storytelling.
Example Use:
Articles or posts that focus on describing events or services, where imagery plays a supporting role, as shown in the Wraparound Text with Media section in the image.
Situations where text explanations accompany relevant images, such as blog posts or news updates.
