CKEditor 4: Adding/Embedding Documents
This document applies to the legacy WYSIWYG editor, CKEditor 4. See
Adding Media for updated instructions.
YMCA Website Services allows you to upload and embed documents directly into a block of text, either from your computer or from the YMCA Website Services media library and browser.
Adding Documents
- To add a document, click on the document button in the text editor toolbar.
- Make sure you’re on the “Add Document” tab.
- Next, name your document and paste the URL into the
- Hit “Save” to go through to the next step.
Adding Documents from the Media Library
- To add a document from the library, click on the document icon in the text editor toolbar.
- Next, click on the tab that says “All Document”
- Name your document, tag it, and write your alt description.
- Hit “Save” to go through to the next step.
Sizing and Floating Your Document
After you save your document to the media library, a dialogue box will appear, giving you some additional options for embedding it inline.
- Entity Name simply refers to the name of your document, which you provided on the previous screen.
- Display as allows you to change the size of the document display without the size of the original video.* By default, YMCA Website Services comes with Full, Half, and Link display modes
- Full means your document fills the area where it’s inserted
- Half mean the document is half the size of its area.
- Link outputs the document as a simple link.
- Link to wraps the document in a link so that when users click on it, it goes to another page.
- Align allows you to float a document to the center or either side of the page.
- Caption outputs a caption below.
When you’re ready to embed the document, just click “Embed.” You can also click the back button on the bottom to choose a different document.
*If you want to make changes to the document you just embedded after you’ve added it, double click on the icon, and the “Embed media” dialogue will appear.
Last modified August 23, 2023: DS-730 docs: Revise Text Editor section (72e1a491)