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Paragraph Block

The paragraph block is one of the most basic blocks within NC State Stories, but it forms the spine of your stories.

There isn’t much to a paragraph block, but it plays an important role nonetheless within your posts. The bulk of your content will be within paragraph blocks.

Basic formatting options are available. Those options include:

  • Bolding
  • Italicizing
  • Hyperlinking
  • Adding superscripts and subscripts

The text can also be left, center, and right aligned; however, the default of left alignment should almost always be used.

Within a news post, you can choose to have the first line of a paragraph be formatted as a lead line. This causes the first line to be all uppercase and bolded to help pace a longer story and indicate the start of a new section.

Functionality Found Elsewhere

Several types of formatting that would normally fit within a paragraph are actually separate blocks within Gutenberg. Those additional blocks include:

There are also additional block types that can supplement content within paragraphs. Those include:

Need help?

Have questions? Feel free to reach out with any questions or concerns at go.ncsu.edu/ucomm-dev-request.