How to Style Rise Text the Rich Text Editor Can’t Reach

Some Rise text is easy to edit but strangely hard to style. Tab labels, timeline dates, event titles, process step labels—these fields let you change the words, but because the rich text editor never appears, there’s not much you can do about the style.

Articulate Rise: Styling what the rich text editor can't reach using Mighty Global Styles

That’s exactly where Mighty Global Styles can help. Instead of adding custom code or living with tiny tab text, you can create a reusable font style and map it directly to the Rise block field you want to control.

The problem: editable text, but no formatting toolbar#

In Articulate Rise 360, the rich text editor shows up in plenty of places: paragraph blocks, headings, quote text, and other standard content areas. But some block-specific fields are harder to modify.

A few common examples:

• Tabs block tab labels
• Timeline block dates and titles
• Process block step labels, buttons, and numbering
• Other block UI text where you can type content, but not highlight and format it

Native Rise doesn’t give you a rich text toolbar for those fields. And yes, custom code can sometimes solve this—but not every course creator wants to maintain CSS snippets, especially on a deadline or in a shared production workflow.

Mighty’s Global Styles gives you a no-code route: create a font style once, then assign it to specific text fields inside Rise blocks.

Example 1: Make Tabs block labels larger#

Let’s start with a very practical case: tab labels that feel just a little too small.

Maybe the default styling is generally fine, but your stakeholder wants the labels to feel more prominent. Or maybe your tab labels are key decision points in the lesson and need more visual weight.

Here’s the workflow shown in the video walkthrough.

1. Open Global Styles from Power-ups

In your Rise course, go to the Power-ups menu at the top of the editor.

From there, open Global Styles.

If you already have font styles set up for the course, you’ll see them listed here. If you don’t, that’s okay—this tip does not require you to build out a full style system first.

2. Create a new font style

Choose Create new style.

Give the style a clear name based on what it’s for. In the example, the style is named:

• Tab Text

That name matters more than it might seem. Once you start styling multiple block fields, descriptive names keep you from wondering later whether “Style 4” was meant for tabs, timeline dates, or process buttons.

3. Set the font properties

In the style editor, set the font options you want for the tab labels.

In the video, the style starts with these values:

• Font: DM Sans
• Size: 18
• Case: Uppercase
• Letter spacing: 1.0

That creates a more deliberate tab label treatment: slightly larger, uppercase, and spaced out enough to feel intentional.

Mighty saves the style automatically as part of your course’s Global Styles.

4. Assign the style to the Tabs block

Next, go to All Blocks and choose Assign Styles.

This is where you connect the font style you just created to a specific Rise block field.

Find the Tabs block in the list. If you don’t already have a mapping set up, choose Add block assignment.

Open the Tabs assignment and look for the tab title field. In the video, this field is changed from the Rise default of None to the newly created Tab Text style.

Here’s the fun part: you can use Go to block to jump directly to the actual Tabs block in your lesson. That lets you see the change in context while you adjust the style.

5. Fine-tune the size while viewing the real block

The first pass used size 18, which looked a little too large in the actual Tabs block. So the style was adjusted to size 15.

Try to avoid judging type styles in isolation. A font size that looks reasonable in a settings panel may feel oversized once it’s sitting inside the block, next to your content, icons, spacing, and page width.

Once the size is set to 15, the Tabs block labels are larger than Rise’s default, but still balanced.

Why Global Styles is better than one-off fixes#

Because this is a global font style mapped to the Tabs block, it applies across the course.

That means:

• Existing Tabs blocks pick up the style
• New Tabs blocks you add later use the same treatment
• You can adjust the style once if the design needs to change

That last point is the real win. If a brand reviewer comes back and says the tab labels are still too small, you do not have to hunt through every lesson. Update the Tab Text style once, and the mapped tab labels update with it.

A faster way to get back to font styles#

Once you already have Global Styles in your course, you don’t always need to go back through the full Power-ups menu.

Mighty gives you a quick-access route from inside a Rise lesson.

You can:

1. Highlight any text in the lesson (any text at all).
2. Open the font styles dropdown.
3. Scroll to the bottom.
4. Choose Edit Styles.

There’s also a keyboard shortcut shown in the video for Mac users:

• Command + Option + Shift + T

That shortcut takes you back to the font styles menu quickly, which is handy when you’re iterating on a course design and checking styles in context.

Example 2: Style Timeline dates and titles#

The same approach works for the Timeline block, which has multiple text fields you can style separately.

In the video, the Timeline block assignment exposes three fields:

• Date
• Title
• Paragraph

To experiment with the Timeline block:

1. Open the Global Styles menu.
2. Go to Assign Styles.
3. Find and open the Timeline block.
4. Review the available fields: Date, Title, and Paragraph.
5. Assign existing font styles to see what fits.

In the example, a smaller subtitle style felt too subtle for the Timeline title. Switching the title to a larger heading style made the event title feel more impactful.

That’s the nice thing about working with existing styles: you can test combinations quickly. You might decide that your Timeline date needs a compact label style, while the title needs a larger heading style and the paragraph should stay closer to your body text.

And if none of your existing styles fit. create a new one for that specific purpose, just like the Tab Text style.

Example 3: Control Process block labels, buttons, and numbering#

Some Rise blocks expose more styleable text fields than you might expect. The Process block is a good example.

When you open the Process block in Global Styles, you can assign styles to fields including:

• Step label
• Title
• Paragraph
• Start button
• Restart button
• Numbering

That gives you much more control over the block’s visual hierarchy without touching code.

For example, you might use Global Styles to make the step label feel more like a small category label, while keeping the title aligned with the rest of your lesson headings. Or you might style the Start button and Restart button text so they better match your course’s typography system.

The important part is that you’re not overriding the entire block with a blanket visual change. You’re assigning styles to specific pieces of text inside that block.

A few practical styling tips#

When you’re using Global Styles for hard-to-reach Rise text, start with the job that text needs to do.

For tab labels, clarity usually matters more than flair. If you use uppercase, consider adding letter spacing like 1.0, as shown in the video, so the labels stay readable.

For timeline dates, you may want a distinct style that separates the date from the event title without competing with it.

For process labels and numbering, consistency matters. Learners use those elements to understand where they are in a sequence, so avoid styling them in a way that makes the flow harder to scan.

And because Global Styles can affect every matching block in the course, check more than one lesson before you call it done. A tab style that works beautifully for two short labels may need adjustment if another lesson has longer tab names.

When to use this instead of custom code#

Use Global Styles when your goal is typography control: font, size, case, spacing, and similar text treatments that should apply consistently across blocks.

Custom code may still have its place for more specialized layout or behavior changes. But for this specific problem—styling text Rise lets you edit but not format—Global Styles is the cleaner first stop.

It’s especially helpful when:

• You want a no-code workflow
• You need course-wide consistency
• You’re working inside brand typography requirements
• You expect future edits from stakeholders
• You don’t want to maintain CSS for simple text styling

The takeaway#

If the Rise rich text editor won’t appear for a block field, don’t assume you’re stuck with the default styling. Open Mighty Global Styles, create or choose a font style, and assign it to the specific block field—Tabs, Timeline, Process, and beyond.

Try it the next time a tab label or timeline title feels just a little off. A small global style can save you a lot of manual workaround energy.