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How to Use the Popup Text Editor

Customize text formatting directly inside the builder for quick, detailed edits.

Updated over 2 weeks ago

The Popup Text Editor lets you quickly adjust text formatting inside the Knak builder. Use it to make small, targeted changes to text blocks. Use the right-side style panel for global text settings.

Popup text editor toolbar appearing at the top of the Knak builder after clicking inside a text block.

When you click inside a text element in the Create tab, the popup editor appears at the top of the builder.

โš ๏ธ Important: Formatting applied in the popup editor overrides global text settings such as font and size. Apply global styles using the right-side builder panel whenever possible.


Select Fonts and Adjust Text Size

Use the popup editor to change font styles or sizes for selected text.

Change Font or Font Size

  1. Highlight the text you want to edit.

  2. Open the popup editor menu.

  3. Select a font or adjust the font size.

Popup editor menu showing font family dropdown and font size options for highlighted text.

Use Text Formatting Options

Expand the โ€œTโ€ menu to access additional formatting tools.

Available Formatting Tools

From left to right, the menu includes:

  • Font weight

  • Bold

  • Italic

  • Underline

  • Strikethrough

  • Superscript

  • Subscript

  • Reset formatting

Expanded text formatting menu in the popup editor showing options like bold, italic, underline, superscript, subscript, and reset formatting.

Reset Text Formatting

Use Reset Formatting to remove formatting changes.

  1. Highlight the text.

  2. Open the T dropdown.

  3. Click the Tx icon to Reset Formatting.

This action removes styles applied with the popup editor. Global styles will apply again.

Popup editor formatting menu with the Reset Formatting (Tx) option selected.

Create Bullet Points or Numbered Lists

Use the list tools to organize text into lists.

Popup editor toolbar showing bullet list and numbered list formatting options.

Add Bullet Points

  1. Place the cursor in a text block.

  2. Select the bullet or numbered list option.

  3. Press Enter to add a new list item.

Create Sub-Bullets

  1. Press Enter to create a new bullet.

  2. Press Tab to indent and create a sub-bullet.

Exit a List

Press Enter twice to end the list and return to normal text.

You can customize list styles from the right-side panel.

Learn more here: List Style.


Change Text Color or Highlight Text

Use the color tool to apply text colors or highlights.

Popup editor color picker showing text color and highlight color options.

Apply Text Color

  1. Highlight the text.

  2. Click the A icon with the color box.

  3. Select a new text color.

Highlight Text

  1. Highlight the text.

  2. Select a highlight color from the same menu.


Insert a Non-Breaking Space

A non-breaking space prevents two words from separating onto different lines.

Use this when you want words to stay together.

  1. Place the cursor where you want the space.

  2. Select the Non-Breaking Space option in the popup editor.

Nonbreaking space button icon in popup editor.

When you select the text block, a blue box shows where the non-breaking space appears.

Text block in the builder showing a blue box indicating the position of a non-breaking space.

Add or Edit a Hyperlink

Use the popup editor to insert or modify links inside a text block.

Insert or Edit a Link

  1. Highlight the text.

  2. Click the Link icon in the popup editor.

  3. Configure the link in the popup window.

Popup editor with insert link button displayed.

Available Link Types

You can link to:

  • A webpage

  • An in-app page

  • An email address

  • An SMS message

  • A phone call

You can also choose:

  • Open in a new tab

  • Open in the same tab

  • Add link tracking

Click Save to apply the changes.

Popup editor link settings window showing options to add or edit a hyperlink.

Break or Remove a Link

You can remove a hyperlink while keeping the text.

  1. Highlight the linked text.

  2. Click the Break Link option in the popup editor.

This action removes the hyperlink. The text remains unchanged.

Text link being selected with the Break Link option visible

Add Special Links or Merge Tags

You can insert Merge Tags into your content using the popup editor.

A Merge Tag automatically inserts personalized information. Examples include a recipient's name or company.

Note: Merge tags must already be configured in your Knak account. Learn more here: No Code and Multi-MAP Merge Tags.

Insert a Merge Tag

Merge tags can be inserted using the Tag dropdown menu.

  1. Place the cursor where you want the merge tag.

  2. Open the Tags dropdown menu in the popup editor.

  3. Select the merge tag you want to insert.

Tag dropdown menu with available merge tags.

Insert a Special Link

Special Links are merge tags configured as links. These can be found in the Links dropdown menu.

  1. Highlight the text where you want to add the link.

  2. Open the Links dropdown menu in the popup editor.

  3. Select the Special Link you want to insert.

Links dropdown menu displaying available Special Links.

Need more help? Contact support via live chat within Knak using the chat bubble in the bottom right corner or email support@knak.com

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