I’m new to Contentful and this is a basic question, sorry for that.
We want to use Contentful to write and display articles. An article contains a list of paragraphs, each paragraph is illustrated by an image.
How should we model that? Should we create a “paragraph” type containing a text field and an image field, then in the “article” type create a list of references to paragraphs? Is there a simpler way?
I guess we could also only create a single big markdown field containing the paragraphs and their images but this would complicate the styling on rendering.
For most use cases, the best practice for an “article” content model would be to simply structure the bulk of your content in a “body” long-text field.
With a long-text field, you’re able to add as many paragraphs and images as you want, without the need of later connecting each of them.
Also, regarding this:
You could actually structure CSS properties around your Markdown content.
Let me know if that makes sense or if I’m missing something
You could actually structure CSS properties around your Markdown content.
My problem is: I want some images to be aligned on left, other to be aligned on right, other to be full-width… Does Contentful support <img /> tags in markdown so I can use css classes directly?
EDIT: ok I just read that Markdown supports inline HTML tags so I guess that’s what you meant, thanks again!
@thomaslule That is correct! You could indeed add inline HTML tags and associate CSS properties on that. Also, we don’t enforce a given syntax in our long-text fields, but it might not be the best idea to use <img /> tags, especially if your Markdown processor cannot render HTML directly.
