Editing layouts

Blocks style guide

Your blocks style guide is your ticket to beautiful page layouts. The guide shows you everything you can do. It’s a page in your site, too, so feel free to update it it according to how you’re using it.

https://humanrights.uchicago.edu/styles/block-styles

Working with blocks

Expand/Collapse allows you to edit the content inside a block, or handle the blocks themselves. The trashcan is used to delete a single block. Use the label to help you understand what the block contains when the content is collapsed. Resort the order of blocks by dragging on the “hamburger icon.” Add blocks by using the buttons at the bottom.

Rich text block

The most frequently used block, the rich block gives you a single column of content.

Diptych

Did you know? The standard notebook of the ancient world was a diptych composed of wood frames, hinged on inside, that housed wax tablets. One wrote with a pointed stylus. The diptych could be reheated and smoothed when needed for reuse.

A diptych offers two columns of content.

Triptych

Did you know? Triptych comes from the greek, τρίπτυχον “triptukhon” (“three-fold”), and is a work of art, usually a panel painting, divided into three sections, hinged together, that can be folded shut or displayed open.

As you’d expect, a triptych offers three columns of content.

Gallery

The gallery block allows you to display multiple images in a gallery. Upload same-sized images by dragging and dropping to the center area. Resort by dragging images in the order you’d like. Add captions by clicking on the image. Delete images by clicking on them and choosing delete. Use the style field to specify a particular style (if defined for your project).

Video

The video block will neatly display videos for you. Cut and paste a URL from YouTube or Vimeo, and the block will handle the rest.