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Edit Content Manually
Edit generated content for email and messaging channels directly for precise messaging and design control, including HTML, CSS, and image updates. Select an element in the canvas, such as text, an image, or a button, to reveal editing tools available for that element.
Required Editions
| User Permissions Needed | |
|---|---|
| To create or edit content: | Marketing Cloud Manager permission set AND any CMS workspace contributor role |
| To publish or unpublish content: | Marketing Cloud Manager permission set AND a CMS workspace contributor role of content admin or content manager |
- In your workspace, open the email or message that you want to edit.
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To edit text for an email, SMS, MMS, or RCS message, click the text and make your
changes.
Select the message text to reveal the available editing tools.
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For email, you can also click the Code tab and make your changes
directly in the HTML.
For detailed, custom control over your email design, edit the HTML and CSS. The code editor includes syntax highlighting and structure editing, and it supports AMPScript. Advanced users can also use Handlebars templating language to add scripting and conditional logic.
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Optionally, add a link to your email content.
- Add a button element to your email, and then in the button's properties, change the button type to Link.
- Click the Code tab, and manually edit the HTML to insert an
<a>link.
If you manually add or edit HTML elements, include the required custom data attributes so that your content stays selectable and editable in the editor. See HTML Requirements for Manually Edited Content.
- Select an image to reveal its editing tools, and then remove it, resize it, or replace it with one of your uploaded images.
After you finish editing, create variants if needed, and then publish approved content. See Work with Content Variants and Preview and Publish Content.
- HTML Requirements for Manually Edited Content
The agentic content code editor supports standard and workspace-specific HTML tags. Review the required data attributes so that manually added or edited HTML elements stay selectable and editable in the visual editor.
