Salesforce Rich Text Field can be used to format text with common formatting options like bold and italic, which are unavailable in plain text.

Recently, I worked for the Freddie company in the United States of America. While working here, I received a task where I needed to format the text. To fulfill this requirement, I used the text area rich Field Type.

Let’s discuss in more detail how to create the Rich Text Field in Salesforce Lightning and Salesforce Classic.

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Rich Text Area Salesforce

Text area rich field type is defined as a field type that permits the users to enter the formatted text and add images and links. We enter the 131,072 characters on a separate line. We can create a rich text field in any object.

This rich text area field provides additional functions, such as the ability to view and edit the source, and it also supports more HTML styles.

Consider a scenario: There is a Costco company that launched some products in the market and wants to get feedback about the product from the consumer who buys their products. The company wants loyal feedback about its products.

If there is any need to improve the product quality, they focus on that after getting the feedback. For getting feedback from the users, they use a text-area rich field in which the customer can add their feedback. The feedback entered reaches the company.

Now, let’s move further and see how to create the rich text field in Salesforce.

Create Rich Text Field Salesforce

The creation of a rich text field in Salesforce is available in essentials, contact manager, group professional, enterprise, performance, unlimited, and developer editions.

You can also create a rich text field in both the Salesforce Lightning and Salesforce Classic user interfaces. Read the complete post to learn more.

How to Create Text Area Rich Field in Salesforce Lightning

Here, we are creating the text area rich field type in Salesforce Lightning.

Consider a scenario: We are using the product object inside the product object. We want to add product feedback as a text area rich field because some companies want feedback about their products.

Here are the following steps:

1. Log into your Salesforce Account. Go to the Gear Icon. Click on the Setup option. Click on the