Umbraco CMS
CloudHeartcoreDXPMarketplace
14.latest
14.latest
  • Umbraco CMS Documentation
  • Legacy Documentation
    • Our Umbraco
    • GitHub
  • Release Notes
  • Contribute
  • Sustainability Best Practices
  • Fundamentals
    • Get to know Umbraco
    • Setup
      • Requirements
      • Installation
        • Install using .NET CLI
        • Running Umbraco in Docker using Docker Compose
        • Install using Visual Studio
        • Local IIS With Umbraco
        • Install using Visual Studio Code
        • Installing Nightly Builds
        • Running Umbraco on Linux/macOS
        • Unattended Installs
      • Upgrade your project
        • Version Specific Upgrades
          • Upgrade from Umbraco 8 to the latest version
          • Migrate content to Umbraco 8
          • Minor upgrades for Umbraco 8
          • Upgrade to Umbraco 7
          • Minor upgrades for Umbraco 7
      • Server setup
        • Running Umbraco On Azure Web Apps
        • Hosting Umbraco in IIS
        • File And Folder Permissions
        • Runtime Modes
        • Umbraco in Load Balanced Environments
          • Load Balancing Azure Web Apps
          • Standalone File System
          • Advanced Techniques With Flexible Load Balancing
          • Logging With Load Balancing
    • Backoffice
      • Sections
      • Property Editors
        • Built-in Property Editors
          • Checkbox List
          • Collection
          • Color Picker
          • Content Picker
          • Document Picker
          • DateTime
          • Date
          • Decimal
          • Email Address
          • Eye Dropper Color Picker
          • File Upload
          • Image Cropper
          • Label
          • Markdown Editor
          • Media Picker
          • Member Group Picker
          • Member Picker
          • Multi Url Picker
          • Repeatable Textstrings
          • Numeric
          • Radiobutton List
          • Slider
          • Tags
          • Textarea
          • Textbox
          • Toggle
          • User Picker
          • Block Editors
            • Block Grid
            • Block List
          • Dropdown
          • Rich Text Editor
            • Rich Text Editor Configuration
            • Rich Text Editor Styles
            • Rich Text Editor Plugins
            • Blocks in Rich Text Editor
      • Login
      • Document Blueprints
      • Sidebar
      • Log Viewer
      • Language Variants
      • Settings Dashboards
    • Data
      • Defining Content
        • Default Document Types
        • Document Type Localization
      • Creating Media
        • Default Data/Media Types
      • Members
      • Data Types
        • Default Data Types
      • Scheduled Publishing
      • Using Tabs
      • Users
      • Relations
      • Dictionary Items
      • Content Version Cleanup
    • Design
      • Templates
        • Basic Razor Syntax
        • Razor Cheatsheet
      • Rendering Content
      • Rendering Media
      • Partial Views
      • Stylesheets And JavaScript
    • Code
      • Service APIs
      • Subscribing To Notifications
      • Creating Forms
      • Debugging
        • Logging
      • Source Control
  • Implementation
    • Learn how Umbraco works
    • Routing
      • Controller & Action Selection
      • Execute Request
      • Request Pipeline
    • Custom Routing
      • Adding a hub with SignalR and Umbraco
    • Controllers
    • Data Persistence (CRUD)
    • Composing
    • Integration Testing
    • Nullable Reference Types
    • Services and Helpers
      • Circular Dependencies
    • Unit Testing
  • Customizing
    • Extend and customize the editing experience
    • Project Bellissima
    • Setup Your Development Environment
      • Vite Package Setup
    • Foundation
      • Working with Data
        • Repositories
        • Context API
        • Store
        • States
      • Contexts
        • Property Dataset Context
      • Umbraco Element
        • Controllers
          • Write your own controller
      • Sorting
      • Routes
      • Icons
      • Backoffice Localization
      • Terminology
    • Extension Overview
      • Extension Registry
        • Extension Registration
        • Extension Manifest
      • Extension Types
        • Menu
        • Header Apps
        • Icons
        • Modals
          • Confirm Dialog
          • Custom Modals
          • Route Registration
        • Bundle
        • Kind
        • Backoffice Entry Point
        • Extension Conditions
        • Dashboards
        • Entity Actions
        • Entity Bulk Actions
        • Entity Create Option Action
        • Trees
        • Global Context
        • Section Sidebar
        • Section View
        • Sections
        • Workspace Context
        • Workspace Views
        • Workspace Actions
        • Localization
      • Extension Kind
      • Extension Conditions
      • Custom Extension types
    • Sections & Trees
    • Searchable Trees (ISearchableTree)
    • Property Editors
      • Property Editors Composition
        • Property Editor Schema
        • Property Editor UI
      • Property Value Converters
      • Property Actions
      • Integrate Property Editors
      • Tracking References
      • Content Picker Value Converter Example
      • Property Dataset
      • Integrate Validaction
    • Workspaces
    • Umbraco Package
    • UI Library
  • Extending
    • Build on Umbraco functionality
    • Health Check
      • Health Check Guides
        • Click-Jacking Protection
        • Content Content Security Policy (CSP)
        • Content/MIME Sniffing Protection
        • Cross-site scripting Protection (X-XSS-Protection header)
        • Debug Compilation Mode
        • Excessive Headers
        • Fixed Application Url
        • Folder & File Permissions
        • HTTPS Configuration
        • Notification Email Settings
        • SMTP
        • Strict-Transport-Security Header
    • Language Files & Localization
      • .NET Localization
    • Backoffice Search
    • Creating a Custom Database Table
    • Embedded Media Providers
    • Custom File Systems (IFileSystem)
      • Using Azure Blob Storage for Media and ImageSharp Cache
    • Configuring Azure Key Vault
    • Packages
      • Creating a Package
      • Language file for packages
      • Listing a Package on the Umbraco Marketplace
      • Good practice and defaults
      • Packages on Umbraco Cloud
      • Installing and Uninstalling Packages
      • Maintaining packages
      • Create accessible Umbraco packages
      • Example Package Repository
  • Reference
    • Dive into the code
    • Configuration
      • Basic Authentication Settings
      • Connection strings settings
      • Content Dashboard Settings
      • Content Settings
      • Data Types Settings
      • Debug settings
      • Examine settings
      • Exception filter settings
      • FileSystemProviders Configuration
      • Global Settings
      • Health checks
      • Hosting settings
      • Imaging settings
      • Indexing settings
      • Install Default Data Settings
      • Logging settings
      • Maximum Upload Size Settings
      • Models builder settings
      • NuCache Settings
      • Package Migration
      • Plugins settings
      • Request handler settings
      • Runtime settings
      • Security Settings
      • Serilog settings
      • Type finder settings
      • Unattended
      • Web routing
    • Templating
      • Models Builder
        • Introduction
        • Configuration
        • Builder Modes
        • Understand and Extend
        • Using Interfaces
        • Tips and Tricks
      • Working with MVC
        • Working with MVC Views in Umbraco
        • View/Razor Examples
        • Using MVC Partial Views in Umbraco
        • Using View Components in Umbraco
        • Querying & Traversal
        • Creating Forms
      • Macros
    • Querying & Models
      • IMemberManager
      • IPublishedContentQuery
      • ITagQuery
      • UDI Identifiers
      • UmbracoContext helper
      • UmbracoHelper
      • IPublishedContent
        • IPublishedContent Collections
        • IPublishedContent IsHelpers
        • IPublishedContent Property Access & Extension Methods
    • Routing & Controllers
      • Custom MVC controllers (Umbraco Route Hijacking)
      • Custom MVC Routes
      • Custom Middleware
      • URL Rewrites in Umbraco
      • Special Property Type aliases for routing
      • URL Redirect Management
      • Routing in Umbraco
        • FindPublishedContentAndTemplate()
        • IContentFinder
        • Inbound request pipeline
        • Outbound request pipeline
        • Published Content Request Preparation
      • Surface controllers
        • Surface controller actions
      • Umbraco API Controllers
        • Porting old Umbraco API Controllers
    • Content Delivery API
      • Custom property editors support
      • Extension API for querying
      • Media Delivery API
      • Protected content in the Delivery API
      • Output caching
      • Property expansion and limiting
      • Additional preview environments support
    • Webhooks
      • Expanding Webhook Events
    • API versioning and OpenAPI
    • Searching
      • Examine
        • Examine Management
        • Examine Manager
        • Custom indexing
        • PDF indexes and multisearchers
        • Quick-start
    • Using Notifications
      • Notification Handler
      • CacheRefresher Notifications Example
      • ContentService Notifications Example
      • Creating And Publishing Notifications
      • Determining if an entity is new
      • MediaService Notifications Example
      • MemberService Notifications Example
      • Sending Allowed Children Notification
      • Umbraco Application Lifetime Notifications
      • EditorModel Notifications
        • Customizing the "Links" box
      • Hot vs. cold restarts
    • Inversion of Control / Dependency injection
    • Management
      • Using Umbraco services
        • Consent Service
        • Media Service
        • Relation Service
        • Content Service
        • Content Type Service
        • Localization Service
        • User Service
    • Plugins
      • Creating Resolvers
      • Finding types
    • Cache & Distributed Cache
      • Accessing the cache
      • ICacheRefresher
      • IServerMessenger
      • Getting/Adding/Updating/Inserting Into Cache
      • Examples
        • Working with caching
    • Response Caching
    • Security
      • API rate limiting
      • BackOfficeUserManager and Events
      • Cookies
      • Replacing the basic username/password check
      • External login providers
      • Locking of Users and password reset
      • Reset admin password
      • Umbraco Security Hardening
      • Umbraco Security Settings
      • Sensitive data
      • Sanitizing the Rich Text Editor
      • Setup Umbraco for a FIPS Compliant Server
      • HTTPS
      • Two-factor Authentication
      • Server-side file validation
    • Scheduling
    • Common Pitfalls & Anti-Patterns
    • API Documentation
    • Debugging with SourceLink
    • Language Variation
    • UmbracoMapper
    • Distributed Locks
    • Management API
      • Setup OAuth using Postman
    • Custom Swagger API
    • Umbraco Flavored Markdown
  • Tutorials
    • Overview
    • Creating a Basic Website
      • Getting Started
      • Document Types
      • Creating Your First Template
      • CSS and Images
      • Displaying the Document Type Properties
      • Creating a Master Template
      • Creating Pages and Using the Master Template
      • Setting the Navigation Menu
      • Articles and Article Items
      • Adding Language Variants
      • Conclusions
    • Creating your First Extension
    • Creating a Custom Dashboard
      • Adding localization to the dashboard
      • Adding functionality to the Dashboard
      • Using Umbraco UI library in the Dashboard
    • Creating a Property Editor
      • Adding configuration to a Property Editor
      • Integrating context with a Property Editor
      • Custom value conversion for rendering
      • Adding server-side validation
        • Default Property Editor Schema aliases
    • Creating a Multilingual Site
    • Add Google Authentication (Users)
    • Add Microsoft Entra ID authentication (Members)
    • Creating Custom Database Tables with Entity Framework
    • The Starter Kit
      • Lessons
        • Customize the Starter Kit
        • Add a Blog Post Publication Date
          • Add a Blog Post Publication Date
          • Add a Blog Post Publication Date
        • Add Open Graph
          • Add Open Graph - Step 1
          • Add Open Graph - Step 2
          • Add Open Graph - Step 3
          • Add Open Graph - Step 4
          • Add Open Graph - Summary
        • Ask For Help and Join the Community
    • Editor's Manual
      • Getting Started
        • Logging In and Out
        • Umbraco Interface
        • Creating, Saving and Publishing Content Options
        • Finding Content
        • Editing Existing Content
        • Sorting Pages
        • Moving a Page
        • Copying a Page
        • Deleting and Restoring Pages
      • Working with Rich Text Editor
      • Version Management
        • Comparing Versions
        • Rollback to a Previous Version
      • Media Management
        • Working with Folders
        • Working with Media Types
        • Cropping Images
      • Tips & Tricks
        • Refreshing the Tree View
        • Audit Trail
        • Notifications
        • Preview Pane Responsive View
        • Session Timeout
    • Multisite Setup
    • Member Registration and Login
    • Custom Views for Block List
    • Connecting Umbraco Forms and Zapier
    • Creating an XML Sitemap
    • Implement Custom Error Pages
    • Create a custom maintenance page
    • Creating a backoffice API
      • Documenting your controllers
      • Adding a custom Swagger document
      • Versioning your API
      • Polymorphic output in the Management API
      • Umbraco schema and operation IDs
      • Access policies
Powered by GitBook
On this page
Edit on GitHub
Export as PDF

Last updated 4 months ago

This article is a work in progress and may undergo further revisions, updates, or amendments. The information contained herein is subject to change without notice.

It is possible to insert Blocks into the markup of the Rich Text Editor (RTE). Once you've defined the Block Type as part of the RTE Data Type and enabled the Blocks Toolbar Option. Then Blocks can be created directly inside the Rich Text Editor.

Configure Blocks

The Block List property editor is configured in the same way as any standard property editor, via the Data Types admin interface.

To set up your Block List Editor property, create a new Data Type and select Block List from the list of available property editors.

Then you will see the configuration options for a Block List as shown below.

The Data Type editor allows you to configure the following properties:

  • Available Blocks - Here you will define the Block Types to be available for use in the property. Read more on how to set up Block Types below.

  • Blocks Live editing mode - Enabling this will make editing of a Block happen directly to the Rich Text Editor, making changes appear as you type.

Setup Block Types

Block Types are Element Types that need to be created before you can start configuring them as Block Types. This can be done either directly from the property editor setup process, or you can set them up beforehand. If they are set beforehand then they need to be added to the Rich Text Editor afterward.

Once you add an Element Type as a Block Type on your Rich Text Editor Data Type you will have options to configure it further.

Each Block has a set of properties that are optional to configure. They are described below.

Editor Appearance

By configuring the properties in the group you can customize the user experience for your content editors when they work with the blocks in the Content section.

  • Label - Define a label for the appearance of the Block in the editor. The label can use AngularJS template string syntax to display values of properties.

  • Display Inline with text - When turned on the Block Element will be able to stay in line with text or other elements. If not the Block will stay on its own line.

  • Custom view - Overwrite the AngularJS view for the block presentation in the Content editor. Use this to make a more visual presentation of the block or even make your own editing experience by adding your own AngularJS controller to the view.

  • Custom stylesheet - Pick your own stylesheet to be used for this block in the Content editor. By adding a stylesheet the styling of this block will become scoped. Meaning that backoffice styles are no longer present for the view of this block.

  • Overlay editor size - Set the size for the Content editor overlay for editing this block.

Data Models

It is possible to use two separate Element Types for your Block Types. It's required to have one for Content and optional to add one for Settings.

  • Content model - This presents the Element Type used as a model for the content section of this Block. This cannot be changed, but you can open the Element Type to perform edits or view the properties available. Useful when writing your Label.

  • Settings model - Add a Settings section to your Block based on a given Element Type. When picked you can open the Element Type or choose to remove the settings section again.

Catalogue appearance

These properties refer to how the Block is presented in the Block catalog when editors choose which Blocks to use for their content.

  • Background color - Define a background color to be displayed beneath the icon or thumbnail. Eg. #424242.

  • Icon Color - Change the color of the Element Type icon. Eg. #242424.

  • Thumbnail - Pick an image or Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file to replace the icon of this Block in the catalog.

The thumbnails for the catalog are presented in the format of 16:10, and we recommend a resolution of 400px width and 250px height.

Advanced

These properties are relevant when you work with custom views.

  • Force hide content editor - If you made a custom view that enables you to edit the content part of a block and you are using default editing mode (not inline) you might want to hide the content editor from the block editor overlay.

Rendering Blocks

To render Blocks in the frontend, you must create Partial Views for each Block.

The Partial Views must be:

  • Named by the alias of the Element Type that is being used as the Content Model for the Block.

  • Placed in the folder Views/Partials/RichText/Components/.

For example, if the Element Type alias of the Content Model is myBlockType, a Partial View must be created at Views/Partials/RichText/Components/MyBlockType.cshtml.

The Partial View will receive the model of Umbraco.Cms.Core.Models.Blocks.RichTextBlockItem. This gives you the option to access properties of the Content and Settings Models of your Block, as illustrated in the following sample:

If you use ModelsBuilder, you can specify the Content Model (and optionally the Settings Model) in the Partial View model. This allows for type-safe access to the Block data.

The following example shows a Partial View of a Block with MyBlockType as Content Model and MyBlockSettingsType as Settings Model:

Build a Custom Backoffice View

Building Custom Views for Block representations in Backoffice is the same for all Block Editors.

@inherits Umbraco.Cms.Web.Common.Views.UmbracoViewPage<Umbraco.Cms.Core.Models.Blocks.RichTextBlockItem>

@* Output the 'heading' field from the Content Model using the `backgroundColor` field from the Settings Model as background color *@
<h1 style="background-color:@Model.Settings.Value("backgroundColor")">@Model.Content.Value("heading")</h1>
@inherits Umbraco.Cms.Web.Common.Views.UmbracoViewPage<Umbraco.Cms.Core.Models.Blocks.RichTextBlockItem<MyBlockType, MyBlockSettingsType>>
@using ContentModels = Umbraco.Cms.Web.Common.PublishedModels;

@* Output the Heading of field with alias 'heading' from the 'MyBlockType' Content Model *@
<h1 style="background-color:@Model.Settings.BackgroundColor">@Model.Content.Heading</h1>
  1. Fundamentals
  2. Backoffice
  3. Property Editors
  4. Built-in Property Editors
  5. Rich Text Editor

Blocks in Rich Text Editor

PreviousRich Text Editor PluginsNextLogin
  • Configure Blocks
  • Setup Block Types
  • Editor Appearance
  • Data Models
  • Catalogue appearance
  • Advanced
  • Rendering Blocks
  • Build a Custom Backoffice View
Read about building a Custom View for Blocks here
Rich Text Editor - Data Type Block Fields
Rich Text Editor - Data Type Block Configuration