Wix Editor: Formatting Your Text
Updated: 6 days ago
Formatting helps you organize your text for clearer communication. There are thousands of possible combinations. You can align, bullet, or number your text to keep it neat. Add italics, underlining, highlighting or bold your text to make it stand out.
Upload your own fonts, and choose language fonts that are compatible with the language(s) of your site to get your message across exactly as you intended.
To format your text:
Highlight the text you want to format.
Click Edit Text.
Format your text using the following tools:
Style
These themes have been created to match your site. You can edit a theme and save the changes so that you can use it again on your site.
Click the Style drop-down and select a theme or click Edit Theme to create and save a text theme.
Fonts
Choose from hundreds of fonts. You can also upload your own fonts and add language fonts.
Click the Font drop-down and choose a font.
Font size
Drag the Font size (px) slider to increase or decrease your text size. You can also enter values between 6 to 999 px.
Bold, italicize, and underline text
To format the text, click the Bold icon
, Italics icon
, and/or Underline icon
.
Color
Change the color of the text.
Click the Color icon
and select a color.
Highlight
Add a color to the background of the text to highlight it.
Click the Highlight icon and select a color
.
Link text
Hyperlink your text so that when visitors click it, they are taken to the linked destination.
Click the Link icon
to choose the link destination and enter the link details. Learn more about adding a link to text.
Align
Align your text to the left, center or right, or justify it across the textbox.
Click the Alignment icon
and select an alignment.
Bullets & numbering
Create a bulleted or numbered list with your text.
Click the Bullets & numbering icon
to choose the list type.
Indent
Indent your text.
Click the Decrease indent icon
or the Increase indent icon
to change the size of the indent.
Text direction
Change the direction of your text to be left-to-right or right-to-left.
Click the Change text direction icon
.
Effects
Add a glow, blur, shadow, outline effects and more.
Click Effects and select an effect for the text.
Character & line spacing
Change the spacing between the characters and lines in your text box. Click Character & line spacing and choose what to do:
Character spacing: Set the amount of space between the characters.
Line spacing: Select Automatic to automatically fill the text box or Custom to set a specific amount.
Vertical text
Make your text vertical instead of horizontal. This is mostly useful for languages such as Japanese.
Click Vertical text and click the Enable vertical text toggle to flip your text.
SEO & accessibility
Use HTML tags to structure your content to improve your site's SEO and assist with accessibility.
Click Choose HTML tag and select one from the drop-down.
FAQs
Click a question to learn more about formatting text.
Can I link text that spans over two paragraphs?
No, you cannot link text that spans over two paragraphs. This means that if you have two words or sentences that are separated by Enter, they act as two paragraphs and you cannot link them both at the same time.
You can link text that spans over two paragraphs if you use Shift + Enter to create the line space instead of Enter.
How can I remove the underline from hyperlinked text?
You can remove the underline of hyperlinked text by selecting the linked text and clicking the Underline icon.
What are the usage restrictions for fonts in Wix?
View the complete list of fonts available in the editor that are licensed for use within your Wix site. Note that these fonts are licensed for digital use only within your Wix site. For more information, see the Wix Terms of Use.
You cannot download the fonts to use, but you may find the open-source versions and install them to your computer.
Be careful with fonts found in external URLs. These are not owned by Wix so you need to contact the author for permission to use them.
This article is credited to the Wix team - https://support.wix.com/ and we thank them for that!
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