Built-in Umbraco Property Editors
This page contains a list of all the built-in Umbraco property editors and a short description of what they do:
Checkbox list
Alias: Umbraco.CheckBoxList
Displays a list of preset values as a list of checkbox controls
Color Picker
Alias: Umbraco.ColorPickerAlias
Adds a list of approved colours which can be selected by clicking.
Content Picker
Alias: Umbraco.ContentPicker2
The content picker allows the content editor to pick a specific node from the content structure.
(Obsolete) Content Picker
Alias: Umbraco.ContentPickerAlias
Made obsolete with the release of Umbraco 7.6 the content picker allows the content editor to pick a specific node from the content structure.
Date
Alias: Umbraco.Date
Displays a calendar UI for selecting dates
Date/Time
Alias: Umbraco.DateTime
Displays a calendar UI for selecting dates and time
Decimal
Alias: Umbraco.Decimal
A configurable number control allowing only numbers including decimals.
Dropdown
Alias: Umbraco.DropDown.Flexible
Introduced in Umbraco 7.10. Displays a list of preset values. The content editor can select either a single or multiple values.
(Obsolete) Dropdown list
Alias: Umbraco.DropDown
Made obsolete with the release of Umbraco 7.10. Displays a list of preset values. The value saved is a text value.
(Obsolete) Dropdown list, publishing keys
Alias: Umbraco.DropdownlistPublishingKeys
Made obsolete with the release of Umbraco 7.10. Displays a list of preset values as a list. The value saved is a prevalue ID
(Obsolete) Dropdown list multiple
Alias: Umbraco.DropDownMultiple
Made obsolete with the release of Umbraco 7.10. Displays a list of preset values where multiple can be selected. The value saved is a CSV of the text values.
(Obsolete) Dropdown list multiple, publish keys
Alias: Umbraco.DropdownlistMultiplePublishKeys
Made obsolete with the release of Umbraco 7.10. Displays a list of preset values where multiple can be selected. The value saved is a CSV of prevalue ids.
Email address
Alias: Umbraco.EmailAddress
A single line textbox only allowing valid email addresses.
File upload
Alias: Umbraco.UploadField
Adds an upload field, which allows documents or images to be uploaded to Umbraco
Folder Browser
Alias: Umbraco.FolderBrowser
Used mainly with container Media Types, the Folder Browser displays a list of thumbnail images.
Grid Layout
Alias: Umbraco.Grid
New to Umbraco 7.2, gives editors a grid layout editor which allows them to insert different types of content in a predefined layout.
Image Cropper
Alias: Umbraco.ImageCropper
Used to crop and resize images to predefined sizes. Available from Umbraco 7.1
Label
Alias: Umbraco.NoEdit
Label is a non-editable control, can only be used to display a pre-set text.
Legacy Media Picker
Alias: Umbraco.MediaPicker
The legacy media picker opens a dialogue to pick a specific media item from the media tree. The value saved is the selected media ID.
List View
Alias: Umbraco.ListView
This control gives the same functionality as the standard listview, but allows you to add the listview as a control on a tab while controlling the other tabs and properties.
Macro container
Alias: Umbraco.MacroContainer
The Macro container was in the early days the only built-in way to allow repeated content out of the box. It allows a content editor to add multiple blocks. Each block is one of the selected Macro's, wrapping an xslt, usercontrols or Macro Partial. Today there are other options to have repeated content like Nested Content, Grid Layout and many other controls in different packages.
Markdown editor
Alias: Umbraco.MarkdownEditor
Markdown is a lightweight markup language with plain text formatting syntax. It is designed so that it can be converted to HTML. The built-in editor allow the user to use the markdown formatting options.
The markdown editor will be interpreted by the Models Builder. Behind the scenes, Umbraco uses the Markdown NuGet package.
Media Picker
Alias: Umbraco.MediaPicker2
The media picker displays the current selected media and provides the option to open the mediaPicker dialog to select existing or upload new media files. There is a setting to enable multiple media items to be selected.
(Obsolete) Media Picker
Alias: Umbraco.MultipleMediaPicker
Made obsolete with the release of Umbraco 7.6 the media picker displays the current selected media and provides the option to open the mediaPicker dialog to select existing or upload new media files. There is a setting to enable multiple media items to be selected.
Member Group Picker
Alias: Umbraco.MemberGroupPicker
Member Picker
Alias: Umbraco.MemberPicker2
Multinode Treepicker
Alias: Umbraco.MultiNodeTreePicker2
The multinode treepicker data type allows content editors to choose multiple nodes in the content or media trees.
(Obsolete) Multinode Treepicker
Alias: Umbraco.MultiNodeTreePicker
Made obsolete with the release of Umbraco 7.6 the multinode treepicker data type allows content editors to choose multiple nodes in the content or media trees.
Multiple Textbox
Alias: Umbraco.MultipleTextstring
The Multiple Textbox property editor enables a content editor to make a list of text items
Nested Content
Alias: Umbraco.NestedContent
New to Umbraco 7.7, the nested content property editor enables you to use Document Types as a schema for list items.
Numeric
Alias: Umbraco.Integer
A configurable number control allowing only numbers.
Radio button list
Alias: Umbraco.RadioButtonList
Pretty much like the name indicates this property editor enables editors to choose from list of radio buttons.
Related Links
Alias: Umbraco.RelatedLinks2
Related Links allows an editor to add an array of links. These can either be internal Umbraco pages or external URLs.
(Obsolete) Related Links
Alias: Umbraco.RelatedLinks
Made obsolete with the release of Umbraco 7.6. Related Links editor allows an editor to add an array of links. These can either be internal Umbraco pages or external URLs.
Rich Text Editor
Alias: Umbraco.TinyMCEv3
A tinymce based rich text editor which is highly configurable. Probably one of the most used controls in Umbraco projects.
Slider
Alias: Umbraco.Slider
A slider with a number in a certain range.
Tags
Alias: Umbraco.Tags
A tag control which can be controlled by a certain group of tags.
Textarea
Alias: Umbraco.TextboxMultiple
A textarea control to input text.
Textbox
Alias: Umbraco.Textbox
A normal html input text field.
True/False
Alias: Umbraco.TrueFalse
A checkbox which saves either 0 or 1, depending on the checkbox being checked or not.
User picker
Alias: Umbraco.UserPicker
The easiest way to pick a person from user backend users. See Members for front-end users.