Squarespace Customization

You can use customized codes to further refine the look and feel of your website and improve certain parts of it. It is strongly recommended that you have programming skills before you add user-defined programming to your work. There are some encoding changes that contradict the standard encoding of your submission and may cause problems in the near term as our engineers continue to improve the engine.

A few additions of coding are premium functions that are available in the latest website business plans and higher: Allows you to enter additional codes during a test. For more information, see Premium Functions. Please note: The addition of arbitrary codes to your website is an extended change that does not fall within the extent of Squarespace assistance. You can use several different ways to append HTML, JavaScript and JavaScript to a Squarespace site.

User-defined CSS editor - Change font, color, and background. Embedded Block - Embeds contents from outside pages that use the oEmbed default. This premium functionality is available in the latest Website Business Map and higher: Codeblock - Adds text within the page layouts. You can, for example, use a block of code for embedding a movie, or apply a Widget to a regular page.

Site Waterwide Injection Codes - Easily inject Site Waterwide codes by adding them to the headers or footers of your website. Pro Page Injection Codes - Adds codes that affect a particular page. This is the suggested way to insert user-defined code: Check out the following videotape for more samples of using your website coding. The following is an extract from our Next Step with Squarespace Series.

Block of codes and input only accepts HTML, but you can append JavaScript or JavaScript by enclosing the HTML with these HTML tags: The Squarespace Developer platform provides full accessibility to the basic source of your website submission if you are an experienced developer. Built for designers and designers to change and even recreate our current designs, this site is a great place to get started.

Development platform is best suited for intermediate level development, usually for those who build customized web sites for others. Please be aware that any changes you make to the code input on the development platform will vanish if you deactivate development mode. Notice: The development platform is a premium function available in the website's latest business plans and higher.

See the Custom Hints FAQ for more help.