Slash commands

The slash menu inserts blocks without leaving the keyboard: while editing text, type / and a menu of everything you can insert opens under your cursor. It's the fastest way to build a page up from a blank paragraph.

Insert a block

1. While editing text, type / on an empty line or after a space.

2. Keep typing to filter the list — he narrows to the headings, img finds Image.

3. Move through the matches with ↓ and ↑ , then press Enter — or click an entry.

4. The block appears and you're already editing it — keep typing.

On an empty paragraph, the paragraph itself becomes the block you chose. On a line that has text, the text stays where it is and the new block lands right after it.

To close the menu without inserting anything, press Esc , click anywhere else, or delete back past the / . And a slash in the middle of a word — "and/or" — just types a slash; the menu only opens at the start of a line or after a space.

The block list

Filtering matches either the name or the element's short tag, so ol finds Numbered List and h1 finds Heading 1.

Next

• Everything else about writing on the page: Writing and formatting

• Other ways to add elements — the + affordance and drag and drop — in The canvas