Using the Rich-Text Editor

Eventene provides a rich-text editor for creating formatted text — bold, italics, headings, lists, images, video, tables, files, links, and more. The editor works similarly to a graphical word processor: select text, then apply formatting from the toolbar.

Where the editor is available

You'll find the rich-text editor in two main places:

Event Description — on the Summary menu of your Event. Each Event has a description area (and optional additional tabs) you can format richly.
Send message body — on the Send menu, when composing email invitations, updates, confirmations, and other Message Types.

A few other surfaces in Eventene use plain text with Markdown instead — including Activity Descriptions, Comment fields, and Question text. Use Markdown there; use the rich-text editor here.

Entering and exiting edit mode

In an Event Description, click the pencil icon to enter edit mode. The Description switches to an editable view with the formatting toolbar at the top.

When you're done, click the checkmark icon to save. To help prevent data loss, the editor also auto-saves every 10 seconds, even while you switch between Description tabs.

Tip: Always confirm your work is saved before switching away from the editor entirely (closing the browser tab, navigating to a different section). Auto-save runs every 10 seconds — but the very last change you made might not be captured if you leave immediately.

For the Send composer, the same pattern applies: enter the editor, format your message, and the system saves your draft as you work.

The toolbar has a main row with several "..." sub-menus. The sub-menus expand to reveal additional actions. Below is the full set of available actions, grouped by category.

Text Formatting

Bold — apply bold (Ctrl+B)
Italics — apply italics (Ctrl+I)
Underline — apply underline (Ctrl+U)
Strikethrough — apply strikethrough (Ctrl+S)
Font Family — choose from Arial, Georgia, Impact, Tahoma, Times New Roman, Verdana
Font Size — select a size from 8 to 96
Text Color — pick from a preset palette or enter a HEX color code
Background Color — same options as Text Color, applied to the highlight behind text
Clear Formatting — remove all formatting from the selected text

Paragraph Formatting

Align — left, center, right, or justify
Unordered List — bulleted list
Ordered List — numbered list
Paragraph Format — Normal, Header levels, Code
Paragraph Style — preset styles (Gray, Bordered, Spaced, Uppercase)
Decrease Indent (Ctrl+[) and Increase Indent (Ctrl+])
Quote — wrap selected text in a block quote. Includes Increase (Ctrl+') and Decrease (Ctrl+Shift+') actions.

Media

Insert Link — paste a URL, set the display text, and choose whether it opens in a new tab
Insert Image — upload from your device or paste an image URL
Insert Video — upload, paste a video URL, or paste embed code (e.g., YouTube)
Insert File — upload a file from your device (see Valid file types below)
Insert Table — pick the dimensions (1×1 up to 10×10)
Emoticon — pick from various categories (e.g., 😀 🎉 ✅)
Special Characters — pick characters from other alphabets (e.g., £ ® æ € ↔ ≥)
Insert Horizontal Line — a divider that spans the width of the editor

For files specifically — including how Eventene stores and links to them — see Inserting Files, Links, and Attachments.

Miscellaneous

Undo / Redo — step back or replay an action
Select All — select the entire content of the page
Fullscreen — expand the editor to fill the window. Click the same icon to exit.
Code View — view and edit the underlying HTML directly (see the next section)
Print — open a print preview window; you can print or save as PDF
Help — show keyboard shortcuts and other editor help

Working with colors

Eventene's color picker supports either preset palette swatches or a HEX color code (e.g., #2D63C8). If you need a wider color reference, the W3 Schools color tutorials are a good resource:

For color design help — schemes, gradients, palettes, theory — the W3 Schools Color Tutorial covers it all.

Code View (advanced)

The rich-text editor stores content as HTML under the hood. The toolbar covers the common formatting needs, but if you want finer control — custom styles, inline CSS, embedded HTML from another tool — you can edit the HTML directly using Code View.

To enter Code View:

Click the "..." menu on the toolbar
Select the < > icon

The editor switches to a plain-text view showing the underlying HTML markup of your content. Edit as needed, then click the < > icon again to return to the visual editor and see your changes rendered.

Example: sample text in Code View

Visual editor:

Dinner Banquet

Join us for a wonderful evening to celebrate our past year's success and accelerated adoption around the world. This year's annual dinner event will be held in the historic Georgian Hotel on Ocean Blvd in Santa Monica.

The same content in Code View:

<h1 style="color: black; text-align: center;">
  <span style="color: rgb(41, 105, 176); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dinner Banquet</span>
</h1>
<p style="color: black;">
  <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
    Join us for a wonderful evening to celebrate our past year&#39;s success and accelerated adoption around the world. This year&#39;s annual dinner event will be held in the historic Georgian Hotel on Ocean Blvd in Santa Monica.
  </span>
</p>

Code View is intended for users comfortable with HTML. If you accidentally break the markup (unclosed tags, malformed attributes), the visual editor may render the section incorrectly. Use a sandbox event to experiment first if you're unsure.

What you can do in Code View

Several Help Center recipes are written specifically for Code View. Use Code View to:

Add styled buttons
Format and refine tables
Embed external websites with iFrames
Apply custom inline CSS to elements the visual toolbar doesn't expose

Tips

Preview frequently. Save your work and open the participant view (the Event Website or a preview of an email) to confirm the formatting looks right.
Don't rely on Code View as a way to bypass the editor. Most things you'd want to do are easier in the visual editor. Save Code View for cases where you genuinely need HTML control.
Be cautious pasting from Word or Google Docs. External word processors include extensive inline styling that may clash with Eventene's rendering. Paste, then review — sometimes pasting into a plain-text intermediate (like a code editor) and back removes unwanted styling.
For Activity Descriptions, you need Markdown, not this editor. Activity-level descriptions use a plain-text field with Markdown formatting support. See Formatting Text with Markdown.