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Visual editor controls reference

You'll find the controls for changing page content, styling, visibility, and targeting, plus how AI suggestions, saving, and publishing work.

Available on the Scale and Pro plans.

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Use the visual editor to change existing page elements for a campaign audience. It loads a proxied copy of your page so you can select an element and edit what that audience sees.

Visual website personalization editor with segment targeting rules and editable page headlinesOriginal
Visual website personalization editor with segment targeting rules and editable page headlines
ControlWhat it does
Leave editorReturns to the dashboard. Your saved draft stays in place.
PersonalizeShows audience rules, page changes, and element editing.
BrowseHides editing panels so you can navigate your site.
Back and reloadNavigate the proxied page. Shift-click reload to clear the proxy cache.
Scroll-reveal fixExposes content hidden by your site's scroll animations in the editing view. It doesn't change your published site.
Above-fold warningFlags content visible before scrolling that may briefly show its original wording while personalization loads.
Saving indicatorAppears while your changes save to the draft.
Fully syncedMeans no unpublished changes remain. Otherwise, the button shows Publish and a change count.
PublishPublishes after the required review and access checks. Review other project changes too.

You don't deploy these edits through your website builder. They use the installed RightMessage snippet and your published project configuration.

Choose an audience

The audience selector lets you create, select, rename, drag to reorder, duplicate, and delete audiences. Default shows your original page. Each audience rule needs a segment group and a segment, and every rule must match.

Page Changes lists the selected audience's changes. Select a change to highlight its element and scroll it into view. The list can show Wrong page, No matching elements on this page, or Element is hidden on this page. Medium or low Smart Match confidence appears beside the change.

Use the plus control, Add element by CSS selector, when you already know the element's selector. See campaign audiences and fallback content for what happens when audiences overlap.

Change content and visibility

The General tab shows only the controls that apply to your selected element.

If you'd like to...Use
Replace all the contentReplace all under Content. It replaces the element's contents, including nested markup. An empty replacement leaves the original unchanged. Use visibility controls to hide it.
Compare with the originalShow original. Copy original copies the original into your replacement.
Replace specific textFind/replace. Enter literal text or a regular expression such as /team/gi. + Add another adds a pair. Remove controls appear when there are multiple pairs.
Show or hide the elementElement Visibility. Choose No change (keep current), Make visible, or Hide element. Messages tell you whether the original is already hidden or visible.
Replace an imageImage Source. Enter a URL, rather than uploading an image. The replacement removes the image's srcset so it uses your URL. An empty value leaves the original unchanged.
Change an image's descriptionAlt Text. An empty value doesn't clear the original attribute.
Change a link's destinationLink URL. An empty value keeps the original destination.
Change where a link opensSet this in your website editor. Link Target lists Same Window, New Window, Same Frame, Parent Frame, and Top Frame, but currently writes _target instead of the browser's target attribute. It doesn't change where the link opens.

Switching between Replace all and Find/replace clears the other mode's change. Copy any wording you want to keep before switching.

Find/replace keeps existing HTML elements and replaces text within each text node. A search can't span text separated by nested markup. Pairs run in order, so a later pair can match wording created by an earlier one. An empty replacement removes matching text.

Literal searches replace all case-sensitive matches. A regular expression without flags defaults to global matching. When you add another flag, such as i for case-insensitive matching, include g to keep replacing every match. An invalid regular expression becomes a literal search.

Visual editor General controls for the WorkForge homepage headline personalizationOriginal
Visual editor General controls for the WorkForge homepage headline personalization

AI suggestions

AI Generate suggests replacement content for one element. Your audience needs at least one segment rule. Suggestions use the original content, selected audience segments, element type, and up to 500 characters of surrounding parent content.

Select a suggestion to apply it to the draft. Regenerate asks for more options and excludes previous suggestions. Closing the suggestions returns you to editing. There are no separate tone or length selectors, and this control doesn't generate all of an audience's page changes at once.

Change styles and classes

In Style, + Add style adds a property override. The current computed value shows your starting point. Enter a CSS value, then press Enter or leave the field to apply it. An empty list says No style overrides. Remove an override to stop that change from setting the property.

Style controlEffect and example value
Text SizeFont size, such as 24px or 1.5rem.
Text ColorText color, such as #333333.
Text WeightFont weight, such as 400, 700, or bold.
Line HeightLine spacing, such as 1.5 or 24px.
Text AlignHorizontal text alignment, such as left, center, or right.
Background ColorElement background, such as #ffffff or transparent.
PaddingSpace inside the border, such as 1rem 2rem.
MarginSpace outside the border, such as 10px or auto.
Border WidthBorder thickness, such as 1px. Your site also needs to supply a border style for the border to show.
Border ColorBorder color, such as #cccccc.
Border RadiusCorner rounding, such as 4px or 50%.
OpacityTransparency from 0 to 1, such as 0.5.

Use valid values for each CSS property. Overrides affect the selected element, not your site's theme.

Add Classes and Remove Classes accept comma-separated class names. They change which classes the element has, not what those classes mean. Define them in your website stylesheet first.

Visual editor Style controls for the WorkForge homepage headline personalizationOriginal
Visual editor Style controls for the WorkForge homepage headline personalization

Page scope and element targeting

In Target, choose CSS Selector or Smart Match. Smart Match is disabled when the change has no stored fingerprint. Its Matching Text, Match Type, and confidence information describe how it selects an element.

In CSS Selector mode, Pages lets you set domain and path entries. If your project has multiple domains, the domain menu includes All Domains. Use + Add another page for another entry. Remove controls appear when there is more than one.

Visual editor Pages controls for the WorkForge homepage headline personalizationOriginal
Visual editor Pages controls for the WorkForge homepage headline personalization

Read page targeting before adding a wildcard path. The URL you open in the editor is a place to edit. Each change's rules still decide where it applies.

Remove a change

Remove change asks you to confirm before deleting the action. It removes the personalization, not the website element. Publish to apply that removal for visitors.

For a walkthrough, see Change copy, images, links, and page sections. If your page won't load in the editor, see editor loading diagnostics.

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