Editor Tools

The comment box ships with a set of formatting tools. You choose which of them your commenters get from the Comnto dashboard: open your site’s settings and pick the Editor tab, between Moderation and Limits.

Unlike theme, colours, or locale, these controls live in the dashboard only. There is no data-* attribute and no window.comnto() option for them — see No embed equivalent below.

Formatting tools

The Formatting tools card lists eight checkboxes:

Bold, Italic, Underline, Strikethrough, Spoiler, Inline code, Code block, Link

A checked box means commenters have that tool. Everything is checked for a new site, so uncheck only what you want to take away. The tools are available on every plan.

When you uncheck a tool:

• Its button disappears from the comment box.
• Its keyboard shortcut stops working, and so does the markdown-style shortcut that produces it: **bold** or __bold__, *italic* or _italic_, ~~strikethrough~~, ==spoiler==, `inline code`, and ``` or ~~~ at the start of a line for a code block. Underline and Link have no markdown-style shortcut to lose.
• Pasted content loses that kind of formatting. The text survives, the formatting does not.
• Link has no keyboard shortcut of its own. Unchecking it also means pasted URLs stay plain text and typed URLs no longer turn into links.

The setting is enforced on the server, not only in the comment box. Any comment created or edited after you uncheck a tool is stored without that formatting: the text is kept, the formatting is removed. This happens silently — the commenter sees no error.

Existing comments keep the formatting they already have. They are only rewritten when someone edits them.

Images and mentions

The Images and mentions card holds two sliders. Both used to sit under Limits; they moved here because 0 is what turns each feature off, so the slider is the whole control.

• Images per comment – how many images one comment may carry. At 0, shown as Off, the image button leaves the comment box and neither drag-and-drop nor pasting an image adds one.
• Mentions per comment – how many people one comment may mention. At 0, shown as Off, typing @ opens nothing and the widget never loads the user list.

As with the other sliders, the available range comes from your plan.

No embed equivalent

Most settings can be overridden per embed. This one cannot. There is no data-editor-* attribute and no matching key in window.comnto(), and adding either would not work: the rule is applied by the Comnto API when a comment is saved, and the API never sees your embed options.

Set the tools in the dashboard, under Editor, and every page that embeds the site follows.