Editing quick takes

A few things about Blogger's post-and-page editor

There are undo and redo buttons on the editing toolbar.

Use undo in Blogger, not "go back" on your browser, if you accidentally wipe out your blog post.

Some of the icons in the editing toolbar are hard to understand (what's this one⁠ ⁠?), but each of them shows a short description "tool tip" on hover (it's "Insert special characters").

There's a Format HTML tool in the HTML editing toolbar that will neaten up the code with spaces and line returns.

That makes it easier to read without actually changing the code, the blog post, or the way things look in Compose mode.

The HTML editing toobar has a search-and-replace feature that is very powerful. It even does regular expressions (regex).

You can crop, format, rotate, and change many attributes of photographs by adding formatting parameters to the image urls.

When you insert an image directly from Google Photos (Insert image > Photos), Blogger clones a copy of the image. That's what goes into the blog and the Media Manager.

The copy persists unchanged even if you edit or delete the original in Photos.

You can search for a special typographical character or emoji by drawing it (⁠Insert special character ⁠ > Draw a symbol here)

If you drag an image into the editor from a blog post that is already published, Blogger will copy the image, including metadata such as alt text.

You may still need to resize the image.

Do you like this sort of thing? Let me know in the comments.