The content your team writes inside articles and community posts deserves to look as good as the rest of your help center. The Formatting elements panel lets you style the building blocks that appear within that content, so every article is consistent and on-brand without authors needing to think about design.
What you can style
Formatting elements cover the styles your authors apply using the Zendesk article editor:
| Group | Elements |
|---|---|
| Basic | Summary blocks, blockquotes, info, warning, error and tip callouts, code, lists, styled lists and tables. |
| Interactive | Accordions and tabs. |
A consistent reading experience
Because these styles are defined once at the theme level, every article automatically picks them up. When an author adds a warning callout or a code block, it looks exactly the way you designed it—no per-article styling required.
The interactive formatting elements—accordions and tabs—are styled here too, so collapsible and tabbed content matches the rest of your help center.
These styles apply to the native callouts, accordions and tabs that authors add from the Zendesk article editor’s Article components menu and the blockquotes they add with its Block quote button, as well as to the legacy class-based elements used in earlier versions of our themes.
To see how authors apply these styles when writing, refer to the Using the article editor guides.