Habitat is a WYSIWYG editor, which means the content you see is the content you will publish. You can easily write paragraphs, create tables, and add multimedia and interactive widgets. Your content will be semantically well-structured and display correctly across devices.

Final content display depends on the distribution method. Certain export methods do not fully support interactivity, such as widgets.

If you have source content in an electronic format from which you can copy text, you can also copy the text from the source and paste it into pages in Habitat.

Edit Content

The Edit Content view of Habitat provides the Edit and Preview modes. In Edit mode, you can:

Add and change page content.
Format text with the toolbar.
Add content patterns.
Style patterns with the breadcrumb bar.
Create and manage comments.
Edit with other team members.

To open and close the Comments sidebar, use a keyboard shortcut: Cmd + M (Mac) or Ctrl + M (Windows) or select the Comment icon.

To add or change elements of the document’s organization, such as units, chapters, or pages, you must edit the table of contents.

Add and Edit Text

To add text: While in Edit mode, click anywhere on the page, and begin typing. Click Enter to start a new paragraph.

Select text and use your keyboard’s Delete key to remove it. To delete an entire paragraph, click anywhere in the paragraph and click the trash can icon in the upper-right corner.

The speed of editing operations in Habitat decreases when the HTML page size exceeds 100 KB.

Add Content From Other Sources

You can copy and paste formatted content from other sources, such as webpages and applications like Microsoft Word, into a Habitat page. Habitat validates the underlying HTML structure of this content to ensure that it can be distributed.

Note the following:

Habitat displays content that it cannot successfully convert to a plaintext blob. This might occur with elements such as tables and lists. You must reformat the content using patterns.
How much content you might need to reformat depends on the quality of the source content.
If your source content does not easily convert in Habitat, or contains many media files, speak to your Inkling representative. Your representative can help you troubleshoot conversion issues and also discuss third-party service providers.
Image, audio, and video files embedded in the content will not display because they have not been uploaded to the Inkling platform. You must add the appropriate pattern from the Add Pattern sidebar, then upload the file. Also, hypertext links might be broken. For more information, see Add interactivity.
If you add content copied from Microsoft Word, Habitat can preserve the formatting of only certain elements and styles: links, tables, headers, and text formatting such as bold and italics. You will need to reformat other content, such as lists, footnotes, images, media ﬁles, and math equations.

Use the Inline Toolbar

Use the inline toolbar to format the content in an element. The toolbar displays when you select an element. The available options change based on whether you select an element or text within an element.

You can perform the following actions with the inline toolbar:

Format text with bold, italics, underline, superscript, and subscript
Add numbered steps (an ordered list)
Add a bulleted list (an unordered list)
Align or justify text
Apply any additional styles conﬁgured for your organization’s Inkdocs
Add links, glossary terms, and annotations
Edit tables by adding and deleting rows and columns
Replace an image, audio, or video ﬁle and adjust its layout
Edit widget content and format widget captions
Move an element by dragging the blue tag

Certain elements let you change the element type to another element, such as changing a paragraph to a heading or a block quote.

Save Changes

To save changes you’ve made to your page, click the Save button in the upper-right corner, or use the keyboard shortcut Cmd + S (Mac) or Ctrl + S (Windows). Habitat creates a new version of the page, which you can see by clicking Page Activity in the top bar.