Title: Adding Inline HTML Buttons?
Last modified: August 20, 2018
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# Adding Inline HTML Buttons?
* Resolved [RadiantPunch](https://wordpress.org/support/users/radiantpunch/)
* (@radiantpunch)
* [7 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-inline-html-buttons/)
* Hello, I’ve just started reading some of the Gutenberg documentation and playing
around with things. I’ve been working on a plugin that extends the TinyMCE editor
on sites I make for clients. One of the things my plugin does is add buttons
for addition inline HTML formats like cite, samp, kbd, and so on.
* There’s a lot of good documentation on extending Gutenberg with custom blocks,
but I can’t seem to find anything on creating custom buttons for inline HTML
formats, or removing/customizing existing formats. What if I want to rename “
Bold” or “Italic” as “Strong” and “Emphasis” and change the icons to coincide
with that? Is there documentation that I’m missing? Thank you!
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* [Corey McKrill](https://wordpress.org/support/users/coreymckrill/)
* (@coreymckrill)
* [7 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-inline-html-buttons/#post-10611336)
* Hi [@radiantpunch](https://wordpress.org/support/users/radiantpunch/),
* That is an excellent question, and kudos to you for diving into Gutenberg extensibility!
Where have you looked so far for documentation?
* I didn’t know the answer to this off the top of my head, so I did a little digging,
and I found something that might get you a bit closer to what you’re looking
for:
* [https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/blob/master/docs/blocks/block-controls-toolbars-and-inspector.md](https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/blob/master/docs/blocks/block-controls-toolbars-and-inspector.md)
* There’s actually a lot of documentation like this right in the Gutenberg GitHub
repo, though sometimes you have to dig pretty deep to find it.
* Thread Starter [RadiantPunch](https://wordpress.org/support/users/radiantpunch/)
* (@radiantpunch)
* [7 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-inline-html-buttons/#post-10611369)
* Hi Corey,
* Thanks so much for replying. I’ve been looking at the documentation here: [https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/handbook/](https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/handbook/)
* The page you linked does give a little bit of insight, but it doesn’t describe
how to really register or create inline formats. I think this is really important.
There’s a lot about Gutenberg’s ability to be adapted with custom blocks that
I like, but I think it should be just as easy to create an inline HTML element
that you can then assign to certain kinds of blocks. If that capability doesn’t
exist, I would be happy to submit a feature request for it.
* [Corey McKrill](https://wordpress.org/support/users/coreymckrill/)
* (@coreymckrill)
* [7 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-inline-html-buttons/#post-10611647)
* [@radiantpunch](https://wordpress.org/support/users/radiantpunch/)
* Ok, I did a little more research, and it turns out that the API for adding/modifying
formatting buttons is still a work in progress. Here’s a GitHub ticket that you
may want to follow that outlines the approach pretty well, and links out to some
related issues:
* [https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/6642](https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/6642)
* For _removing_ any of the default formatting buttons, here’s a pretty good tutorial:
* [https://modularwp.com/disable-gutenberg-toolbar-buttons/](https://modularwp.com/disable-gutenberg-toolbar-buttons/)
* Thread Starter [RadiantPunch](https://wordpress.org/support/users/radiantpunch/)
* (@radiantpunch)
* [7 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-inline-html-buttons/#post-10655901)
* Hi Corey,
* Thanks so much for looking into this. I will bookmark the link you shared and
follow the pull request on github to see how this progresses.
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* [formatting](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/formatting/)
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* Last activity: [7 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-inline-html-buttons/#post-10655901)
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