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Canvas editor: your content, your way

Canvas is a tool for creating beautiful long-form content. Write, paste or import long-form content that can be delivered anywhere.

The Canvas editor in Contensis

Your own creative toolkit

The right editor for every situation

Choose from field types including headings, paragraphs, code, panels, tables, images, and components. You can drag and drop each one to reorder your content, add an anchor ID to target that element with an anchor link, duplicate, or delete it.

A Canvas field showing the list of available content blocks.

Easily enrich your content with images

Content is more than text. Easily add CMS-managed images or allow authors to insert externally-hosted images. Add alt text, insert a caption, or apply crop variations to any image.

The image gallery in the Contensis Canvas editor.

Extend Canvas with your own components

Canvas supports all existing components in your content model. Create components for things like newsletter signups, curated product sliders, or promoted content banners and make them available in your Canvas.

Components in a Contensis Canvas.

Effortless content creation

All the formatting

Canvas has all the styles you’d expect for a text editor, along with some you might not, like keyboard shortcuts and mathematical equations. Some content blocks, like code and call-outs, have extra formatting options to specify things such as programming language and call-out type.

The inline toolbar in the Contensis Canvas editor.

Stay in your flow

Love the keyboard? So does Canvas. Order, arrange, format, and convert content from your keyboard using Markdown, slash commands, and intuitive shortcuts.

Import

Migrating content into Canvas is easy. Use our CLI and Management API to import content from anywhere and automatically convert it into the relevant Canvas field types. Your imported content will be stored as clean JSON, ready to deliver anywhere you like.

An illustration showing the kinds of content you can import into Contensis Canvas.

Paste from anywhere

Don’t misplace content in a mess of different tools. Easily paste notes and other content from your favourite apps into Canvas and continue editing. Canvas will automatically convert it to use the right field types and formatting.

An abstract illustration showing content pasted into a Contensis Canvas.

Canvas adapts to your needs

Flexible configuration

Choose what types of content and formatting should be supported in your Canvas.

The Canvas editor settings panel in a Contensis content type.

Document mode

Use Canvas as a distraction-free structured rich-text editor.

A table block in the Contensis Canvas editor.

Field mode

Use canvas for smaller blocks of text and control the available formatting.

A Canvas editor in field mode.

Structured rich text

Clean JSON output

Use on the Web, iOS, Android, VR — everywhere.

An example of the JSON output from a Contensis Canvas field alongside a mockup of a mobile web page.

Validated for quality

Content is validated based on its field settings to prevent any erroneous data being stored.

A boolean toggle and a check mark or tick representing content validation.

Language agnostic

Render your content in Contensis React base, or use our helpers to get your content displayed in your preferred framework.

An illustration featuring the React.js, Express.js, .Net and Vue.js logos.

Ready to revolutionise your content management strategy?

Join the growing community of satisfied users who have chosen Contensis as their go-to content management solution. With its intuitive interface, flexible customisation options, powerful multi-channel publishing, and exceptional support, Contensis sets the standard for modern content management.

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