Title: Adding custom CSS classes to Visual Editor “Format” menu
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Adding custom CSS classes to Visual Editor “Format” menu

 *  [dvsmith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dvsmith/)
 * (@dvsmith)
 * [17 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-custom-css-classes-to-visual-editor-format-menu/)
 * I’m trying to add custom CSS classes to the **Format** drop-down menu of wordpress’
   TinyMCE visual editor. I’m using WordPress as a CMS, with some non-CSS-savvy 
   users.
 * I’ve modified `theme_advanced_blockformats` in `/wp-includes/js/tinymce/themes/
   advanced/editor_template.js`, but non-standard tags either break the menu or 
   don’t do anything.
 * Another mystery, standard elements added to the menu (for example, `hr`) do work—
   it modified the post/page code properly — but they show up in the Format menu
   as an empty selection.
 * (I have looked at: [wordpress.org/support/topic/165934?replies=3](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/165934?replies=3)
   and [blog.circlesixdesign.com/2007/01/03/wp-richtext/](http://blog.circlesixdesign.com/2007/01/03/wp-richtext/),
   which weren’t of much help beyond pointing me in the right direction for the 
   file.)

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 * Last activity: [17 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-custom-css-classes-to-visual-editor-format-menu/)
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