Bolding in new email editor

Hi Rachel! Sounds like it might be a bug since you should be able to control the text styling both in the template and in an email.

Can you check the source code and make sure the bolded text styling is applying to the specific word and not to the whole section?
 

1. Click the </> icon to see the source code

2. Make sure the styling is applying correctly. In this example, the H1 text is bold by default, but you can see I unbolded the “- Test Copy” part 

   

    

Regardless of how it shows up in the template, when you create an email, that should be an editable text section where you can customize the bolding/italicizing, as well as the font size, colour, etc. If you still aren’t able to edit the text styling in an actual email, there may be some CSS somewhere that’s overriding your styling.

​@rachelkay -- I’m able to both see it work AND not work, depending upon the approach you use to bold the text. In the image above, I’ve highlighted the words “your text” and used the black pop-up bar to edit that specific text to be bold. That seems to work for me. The dropdown control modifies the selected text by adding a span around the text. 
However, when I highlight the text and then use the “B” icon in the Text Styles panel, the entire paragraph changes to bold. This control modifies the selected (parent) element (in this case <p>) rather than the selected text.

The problem here is that the UI is disconnected and one way of bolding text works differently than the other which creates a poor UX. Both are units of the Adobe Spectrum design system so there’s really no reason that they can’t be setup to function the same. This might just be an oversight by the developers or a bug.

I’d certainly prefer a unified editing experience -- it seems weird to me that there are the same tools in the popup and sidebar that do different things and that there are buttons in the toolbar which aren’t in the sidebar.

I’ve seen you’ve submitted some ideas recently (kudos on hammering thru the new editor and making all these suggestions) -- this might be another one to add to the list. If you do, drop a link here and I’ll vote it up for sure.