A Paragraph holds body text: a description under a heading, a line of small print, or a short label above a title. You type and format the text on the canvas, links included, as Edit text on the canvas describes.
You can add a Paragraph to every section type and inside a Collection, a Form, a Group, a No Results block or a Paywall. In the block picker it sits under Common. Click a Paragraph on the canvas to select it. The canvas toolbar appears over it, and its settings open in the right sidebar. In the tables below, "the + menu" is the + beside the name of a group of settings, such as General.
General
Setting
What it does
Text
The paragraph's words. Insert data, on the toolbar that shows while you type, adds data such as the site title, or the post's date on a post template.
Alignment
Left, Center or Right. Empty, the paragraph follows the alignment of its section or Group. Set it with the Alignment button on the canvas toolbar. It shows in the panel only after you give it a different value for tablets or phones, as Change the design on tablets and phones explains.
Columns
1 Column (the default), 2 Columns or 3 Columns. Long text flows from the bottom of one column to the top of the next. The columns show only where the space around the paragraph is at least 576 px wide, so a phone shows one column. Add it from the + menu beside General.
The Transform button on the canvas toolbar turns the Paragraph into a Heading and keeps its text. A Heading's Transform button turns it back.
Typography and colors
The paragraph's size, font and line height come from the Text style in Styles. The Typography group changes them for this paragraph alone, and its Edit Text in Styles link opens the style itself. Typography settings describes the group, and Text styles and font sizes the styles.
Under Colors, Text color changes the color of the letters. Link color, from the + menu beside Colors, sets how links inside the paragraph look: Accent (the default) shows them in your accent color, Text in the paragraph's own color and boldness, and Custom in a color you pick, with the theme's link boldness and hover. A Background, from the + menu beside Colors, sits behind each line of text, not behind one box around the whole paragraph. With Padding under Spacing and Corners under Appearance, it turns a short paragraph into a badge or a label.
A Paragraph holds body text: a description under a heading, a line of small print, or a short label above a title. You type and format the text on the canvas, links included, as Edit text on the canvas describes.
You can add a Paragraph to every section type and inside a Collection, a Form, a Group, a No Results block or a Paywall. In the block picker it sits under Common. Click a Paragraph on the canvas to select it. The canvas toolbar appears over it, and its settings open in the right sidebar. In the tables below, "the + menu" is the + beside the name of a group of settings, such as General.
General
The Transform button on the canvas toolbar turns the Paragraph into a Heading and keeps its text. A Heading's Transform button turns it back.
Typography and colors
The paragraph's size, font and line height come from the Text style in Styles. The Typography group changes them for this paragraph alone, and its Edit Text in Styles link opens the style itself. Typography settings describes the group, and Text styles and font sizes the styles.
Under Colors, Text color changes the color of the letters. Link color, from the + menu beside Colors, sets how links inside the paragraph look: Accent (the default) shows them in your accent color, Text in the paragraph's own color and boldness, and Custom in a color you pick, with the theme's link boldness and hover. A Background, from the + menu beside Colors, sits behind each line of text, not behind one box around the whole paragraph. With Padding under Spacing and Corners under Appearance, it turns a short paragraph into a badge or a label.
Appearance
The Appearance group holds Border, Corners and Shadow. Colors and appearance settings describes them.
Spacing
A Paragraph also has Width from Layout settings, and the Display settings and Advanced settings of every block.