Editorial cheat sheet
View as MarkdownHow to use the news upload form – Video
Most of what you need to publish on the FashionUnited platform is supported by markdown. Here's the relevant links:
Learn more about Markdown
- How to Write Faster, Better & Longer: The Ultimate Guide to Markdown
- Markdown Cheat sheet – For advanced use, the basics are covered on this page.
When using HTML
For any markup that is not covered by Markdown's syntax, you simply use HTML itself [source].
Use blank lines to separate block-level HTML elements like <div>, <table>, <pre>, and <p> from the surrounding content [source].
Good example:
Bad example:
This is a regular paragraph.
This is my caption text.
**This is bold a paragraph.**
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Inline HTML (span, img, etc.) is allowed and will render fine.
*And an italic sentence.*
News Article: Basic, no extra images
Please note:
- The title is set in a separate field.
- the header image that you upload will insert at the top of your article automatically. This looks like a link:

News Article: with 1 extra image
Executive, Education
Uploading to EXEC
EXEC news (https://fashionunited.com/executive) is corporate news usually found on a company’s Investor Relations page. It includes, but is not limited to:
- All trading updates
- All acquisitions/stake sales
- All investments
- All exec hires or exits
- Anything else published to a company’s Investor Relations page
Uploading EXEC news is now a simplified process within the dashboard.
To publish stories to our EXEC page, editors should now only select the Business category. This will automatically publish the content to the EXEC page and place it behind the paywall.
Please ensure that the Access Level is set to member for all business news to maintain the paywall integrity.
Important: The legacy /exec and /edu categories available in the dashboard are no longer in use and should be avoided.
Uploading to EDU
EDU articles focus on the academic and training side of the industry. This includes innovative fashion education programs, graduate shows, profiles on emerging designers, interviews with educators or students, and textile or trade training updates.
When uploading, editors should select the most appropriate category for the content type. For example, use the ‘People’ category for interviews and ‘Fashion’ for coverage of graduate shows.
To ensure content appears on the dedicated EDU page (https://fashionunited.com/education), you must use specific metakeys (tags):
- Use the ‘Education News’ tag to feature an article at the top of the EDU page.
- Use the ‘Education Schools’ tag for standard, non-featured EDU content.
Please note: these specific tags only dictate the placement on the EDU page and do not affect the layout or visibility on the main .COM site. Articles with the metakeys above will always appear as non-featured articles on the main .COM page, as well as any other English website they are published on. If the news is particularly relevant to our readers, including non-education focused readers, you can edit the featured status in the article.
Embed Video
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Hyperlink
My favorite website is FashionUnited.
Images
Or, with optional titletext:
- Alttext is mandatory. Always provide an alt text describing what's in the picture. This helps SEO and visually impaired people using screenreaders. Read more
- Title text is optional / not needed. The title text will show on mouse hover. On mobile phones, over 50% of users as of 2019, you cannot hover. Hence the title text is useless.

Image with caption
Markdown does not support figcaption. Therefore we must use HTML.
This is my caption text.

Caption with links
A cheeky macaque, Lower Kintaganban River, Borneo. Original by Richard Clark

Linking images
Default image
Label
INTERVIEW
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Link to 1 article
Also read:
TEXT
Read more box
Read more:
TEKST
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TEKST
Frame
Basic panel example
Frame with links
Lees ook:
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Frame within article, grey
In het kort (test)
Opgericht in 1988
Adres: test test
Aantal werknemers: test test
Wapenfeiten: test test prijs test
Promotional box
See a preview of the promotional boxes in our Storybook.
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Promotional box, with a header text
<header>...</header>
Promotion
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Promotional box, with link
class="article-promo"
Achtergrondinformatie
De mode-industrie is een van de vervuilendste industrieën wereldwijd. We quoten de Amerikaanse modejournalist Dana Thomas: ‘van het vergaren van grondstoffen tot de afvalberg vol kleding’. Enerzijds is de modesector dus zo vervuilend omdat modebedrijven gigantisch veel kleren produceren, anderzijds omdat consumenten - jij en ik - enorme hoeveelheden kleding kopen - en weggooien.

Promotional box, with alternative styling
class="article-promo--alt"
Promotion
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Details-menu
Een ander idee is dichter bij huis produceren.Dat doet Zara overigens ook.
Mode wordt weer dicht bij de afzetmarkt gemaakt
Voor nearshoring, waarbij de productie dus dichter bij de
afzetmarkt plaatsvindt, en reshoring, het terughalen van de
productie uit lagelonenlanden, is steeds meer interesse in de branche. Zo
blijkt ook uit het in 2018 verschenen rapport 'Is apparel manufacturing
coming home?' en het 2021 onderzoek 'Revamping fashion sourcing: Speed and
flexibility to the fore' van het Amerikaanse adviesbureau McKinsey. Daarin
gaf 71 procent van de Chief Purchasing Officers (CPO’s) die McKinsey
ondervroeg, aan meer te willen gaan nearshoren.
Dat er in de modewereld een toenemende interesse is voor productie in de
buurt van de afzetmarkt, stelt ook de Amerikaanse (mode)journalist Dana
Thomas. Thomas schrijft in haar boek Fashionolopis (over de opkomst en
keerzijde van fast fashion) dat deze nearshoring trend in Amerika
en Engeland al een paar jaar geleden in gang is gezet. (Bron: De
Correspondent artikel 'Van Made in Bangladesh naar Made in Europe’ van Emy
Demkes, uit oktober 2019.)
Han Bekke, voorzitter van branchevereniging Modint, verklaarde tegenover
NOS eveneens "een duidelijke trend" te zien. In het artikel 'Groeiend
aantal modebedrijven wil weg van 'race to bottom' in China' uit april 2021
stelt Bekke: "Steeds meer orders gaan naar landen als Turkije, Portugal en
Italië en Oost-Europese landen."
The rest of the article.....
Additional information to use this tag:
- Make sure that the paragraph is wrapped with a
<details>tag. - The
<summary>tag is used to define a visible heading for the<details>element. - Make sure the
<span class="dropdown-icon"></span>tag is added to the<summary>tag to show the dropdown icon. - The
<details-menu>tag is used to define the content of the details menu. - The
<details-menu>tag must have therole="menu"attribute. - The
<details-menu>tag must have a<div class="article-promo">tag as a child. - The
<div class="article-promo">should contain<p>tags with the content of the details menu. - Continue the article after the
<details>tag, so that the DOM looks like:
closed: 
open: 
Dropdown for credit details / references, using an asterisk (*) icon
In order to display a dropdown with an asterisk, use the same element as the details-menu, but replace <span class="dropdown-icon"></span> with <span class="asterisk-icon"></span>.
Example:
Example of credit details.
Notice how it uses an asterisk instead of
a chevron icon
Credits to FashionUnited
