# Customize Your Email {% embed url="" %} ### Blocks Blocks are like lego pieces. Each one serves as a piece of content. Add a bunch of them together and you can construct a beautiful email!\ Blocks could include an image, a piece of text, a column or a button; these are very basic examples.\ Rechat also provides more advanced blocks.\ \ Blocks are categorized into several categories: * Basics * Listings * Agents * Articles * Market Reports Let's add a basic block to your email. {% tabs %} {% tab title="🎯 Example: Adding a Text Block" %} 1. Open the **Basics** category. 2. Find the **Text** block. 3. Drag and drop the text block where you want it to appear on the email.
{% endtab %} {% endtabs %} ### Manipulating added blocks Once you add a block to your email, you can customize it. Imagine once you add a **Text** block, then afterward you want to change the copy. All you have to do is to click on the content you want to edit. Some changes can be applied **inline**, right inside the email. Some other attributes can be manipulated using the attributes on the right toolbar. {% tabs %} {% tab title="🎯 Inline Example" %} As you can see in the following figure, changing the copy or formatting of the text is done right inside the email. See the **Attributes Example** to see how some other changes can be applied to contents.
{% endtab %} {% tab title="🎯 Attributes Example" %} You can see how some other changes, like the padding or background color, could be applied using the right hand toolbar.
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