Hello, I am getting stuck here with the rich text in CMS Pages. I have multiple categories, sometimes small series for beginners that require adding dropdowns, tables, sliders, and I can’t do that with the rich texts, and adding those inside of the CMS page will duplicate it to every other page that don’t require it, and adding conditional visibility with switches or finsweet attributes is also a lot of work for a simple task. I just want to add elements like dropdowns and tables inside of specific CMS pages when its needed and that connects to the CMS collection, is this possible ?
Your issue comes from Webflow’s limitation on adding custom elements inside the CMS rich text field. A simple workaround is to use Webflow embeds (<div> with custom classes) inside the rich text field, allowing you to insert tables, dropdowns, or sliders where needed. Another approach is using Finsweet’s CMS Nest to dynamically insert these elements only when required. If that still feels too complex, consider creating a multi-reference CMS structure to link specific content blocks to relevant pages. Try these solutions and republish—if you need further help, feel free to contact me.
I see, so I must have my content in HTML and put it inside the rich text ? Is it possible to design in webflow and somehow take the HTML of the layout and paste it there or do I have to code ?
What you’re describing suggests that you want different content for every single page, so the answer is “not really.” HTML in the Embed is probably the best way.
That said, if I were engineering this for a client, I would probably consider building separate /demo pages which contain those UX forms, and the IFRAME embed those into the HTML Embed. You could look in that direction.
If these are Webflow-specific dropdowns, tables, sliders etc that you want to develop uniquely for each article that’s probably the best you can do.
If the those elements are reused across some of the articles, you could look into Finsweet Powerful Rich Text and its concept of “components” which are reusable and can be “pulled into” your rich text content. Look up those docs to learn more.
If these are totally generic HTML courses and you’re just showing something like functional UX concepts, I’d consider embedding codepens or something similar instead.
Yes I want to make custom articles depending on the content using webflow’s native elements like dropdowns, too bad we can’t just directly add them inside the rich text. I will use finsweet solutions. Thank you!