Webflow: How to style elements inside a rich text element WITHOUT changing site-wide element styles

Webflow: How to style elements inside a rich text element WITHOUT changing site-wide element styles

Intro

Rich text elements are great. But styling them – and the elements inside of them – can be tricky. (At least it was for me when I first needed to do so…)

By default, elements within a rich text field inherit their styling from their respective HTML tags.

Example: If you have a paragraph element in your rich text field, the paragraph will inherit the global styling of the ‘paragraph’ HTML tag.

But that means: when you change the styling of that HTML tag, the change will apply to all elements on your site with those HTML tags. 

So here’s how to style elements inside a rich text element without changing all elements on your site:

Video tutorial

Here’s the video if you prefer to watch instead of read

Step-by-step

  1. Select the rich text element
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  2. Give the rich text element a class
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  3. Select the element in the RTE you wish to style, e.g. a paragraph
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  4. Click into the Selector field, and select the HTML tag (e.g., All paragraphs) from the menu
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  5. Click Nest selector inside of “class name”
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  6. Done Now you can style the element however you like, and it will only affect paragraphs that are nested inside of elements with the class ‘RTE-class’ applied.
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Resources:

https://university.webflow.com/lesson/rich-text?topics=elements