Block settings

Pages, posts, templates and components use one live block editor. The surface uses Lettern's site renderer, so authored content, styles, bindings and layout stay visible while you work. Edit text inline, insert any compatible block and use the shared inspector for content, design and interactions.

#The workspace

• Live content — rendered blocks in their real layout. An article follows its narrow template; a landing page keeps its designed composition. Click text to write without a selection frame; click anywhere else in a block to select it. Pointing at a block outlines it. Clicking never adds content.
• Insertion — rest the pointer between blocks for a boundary line with a +, which opens the quick inserter (search, suggestions and Browse all). The line stays on its boundary while you choose. Insert before/after in a block's menu, an empty container's + and Insert block in the toolbar use the same catalog and structural rules. See Writing.
• Block toolbar — a selected block gets one toolbar above it: the drag handle, select parent, the block's name, Move up and Move down, and a ⋯ menu (insert before or after, duplicate, make a component, delete). Its settings open in the sidebar. Press Esc or drop outside a valid target to cancel a drag. The same validation and undo rules apply to every way of moving. The toolbar stays in view while a tall block scrolls and leaves with the block.
• Outline — navigate the nested structure and select blocks that are difficult to reach on the page, including hidden or bound content.
• Right sidebar — entry details, History and plugin tabs. Selecting a block opens its shared inspector, and writing in a block shows its inspector while the sidebar is open; the entry-name button returns to record details.

#Content, Design, Interact

• Content edits a block's settings or connects them to data with the database icon. Visibility, anchors, classes and attributes use the same panel. See Data and Repeat.
• Design edits CSS: layout, position, size, spacing, typography, fill, border, effects, transform and transition. Choose the screen size and state to edit responsive or hover/focus variants. See Styles.
• Interact adds animations and interactions.

Text option groups use the inspector's width and wrap in narrower panels. Use Tab to focus an option group and the arrow keys to choose an option. All collections share these controls and the same block catalog.

#Checking interactions

The editor already shows live rendering. The entry toolbar's Preview opens the current working content and page interactions without editing affordances. It includes unsaved title, content, URL and author changes, and is available before the first save. Return to the same surface to keep editing; there is no separate writing mode or second content model.

#Saving and publishing

The shared editor saves a working copy as you type. Publish in the top bar makes the reviewed version public. Templates and components use the same lifecycle; publishing a shared source rebuilds pages that depend on it. See Entries.