Formatting Content with the CMS
Paragraphs and Line Breaks
A paragraph is one or more consecutive lines of text, separated by one or more blank lines. Content within a paragraph will wrap to fit the width of the screen (or container. Lines without blank lines are concatenated, and paragraph breaks are automatically added whenever a blank line is encountered.
To add a line break, append two blank trailing spaces to the end of a line. This can be useful when formatting poetry or address blocks. Line breaks cannot be used in markdown tables.
Quotations
Block quotes are handy for setting a quote apart from
the rest of the content.
To indicate a quotation, precede the first line of the paragraph with the > character.
Creating Links
Links are essential to web pages; they are the glue that holds a site together. Links consist of two parts - the link text, and the link destination. In Markdown format, the link text is between a set of square brackets - '[' and ']', followed by the link destination URL in between opening and closing parentheses - '(' and ')'. In the CMS page editor, the link text is colored dark blue, and the link URL is indicated in red.
[UH Hilo](https://hilo.hawaii.edu)
Link URLs should start with an https:// or http://, unless they are a link to another page on this website. View complete information about links on the Creating Links in the Content Management System help page.
Lists
Bulleted lists are created from one or more lines preceded by a dash and a space: -. Lists may be nested by using sets of four preceding spaces before the dash. So, the syntax for a double nested bulleted list would be as follows:
Using Page Headings
Headings are used to separate content. There are several sizes of headings available, ranging from heading level 1 (the page title) to heading level 6 (the smallest sub-heading). In the CMS, use hashtags to indicate the level of the heading, with one hashtag for each level. For example, a heading level 2 would look like ## Major Heading and a heading level 3 would appear as ### Sub-heading.
For more about headings, visit the Accessible Page Structure page.
Hawaiian Characters
The UH Hilo CMS is designed to make it easy to spell Hawaiian words properly, using Hawaiian Characters such as the ʻokina and kahakō. Do not use the single quote ('), apostrophe (’), or backtick (`) in place of the ʻokina.
The 'Insert special character' button includes all of the hawaiian characters, plus hard-to-type characters such as apostrophes and quotes.
Backticks (`) are used to denote a code block, and will not be interpreted correctly if used instead of the in place of the ʻokina (ʻ).
