In plain English
At the top of Selected Component, Selected Column, and Entire Row you will see two small pills: Reset, and Clear all attributes. Widget Settings and Collection Settings have only Clear. They look similar, they sit next to each other, and they do very different jobs. The rest of this page is the difference, because mixing them up is the fastest way to lose work you meant to keep.
Both pills act on one section only. Reset or Clear on Selected Column will not change the words in a text block, the image you picked, or the row those columns sit in. Reset or Clear on Selected Component will not change padding, width, background, or anything else that lives under Selected Column. Reset or Clear on Entire Row will not change any column. Widget Settings and Collection Settings Clear only the outer box of that widget or collection — the rows inside are left alone.
Reset means: make this section look the way it would if you had just dropped this component onto the canvas, using the defaults your project and the composer currently use for new items. It is not “undo the edits I made in this drawer session.” It is not “go back to how this looked last Tuesday.” If your team has since changed the project’s starter styles for new items, Reset uses those newer starters, not whatever was true the day you originally dropped the component.
Clear means: remove every setting this section owns, and leave it empty. A cleared column has no padding, no width, no background of its own. A cleared component has no typed text, no chosen image, no divider style. A cleared row has no padding, no wrap, no alignment of its own. The component is still on the canvas; it just has no authored values in that section.
There is no “are you sure?” step. One click is one undo. If you hit the wrong pill, use Undo in the composer toolbar the same way you would after any other edit.
What each option does
| Option | What you will see |
|---|---|
Reset | Rebuild this section from today’s drop-time defaults. On Selected Column and Entire Row that is the same calculation used when you drag a component from the palette. On Selected Component it restores the component’s own declared defaults (placeholder copy, a default divider style, and so on) and removes settings that have no default. Widget Settings and Collection Settings do not offer Reset, because those drawers have no drop-time starters to return to. |
Clear all attributes | Delete every setting this section owns. Column look stays if you clear the component; component content stays if you clear the column. On Widget Settings and Collection Settings this is the only pill, and it clears the outer box only. |
When you would use it
- You have been experimenting with padding, width, and colour on a column and want it back to the look a fresh drop would have — Reset on Selected Column.
- You want a column with no starter padding or background at all, so it can sit flush against its neighbours — Clear on Selected Column.
- You replaced the placeholder text, then decided the block should start empty again — Clear on Selected Component (Reset would put the placeholder copy back).
- A row has picked up extra alignment and padding from earlier experiments and you want the band a new row would have — Reset on Entire Row.
- The widget’s outer box has leftover max-width or background from an earlier layout and you want the embed to inherit the host page again — Clear in Widget Settings.
How to change it
- Open the right drawer. For a component, column, or row: click the component on the canvas to open Modify, then jump to Selected Component, Selected Column, or Entire Row. For the whole widget or collection: click the gear in that header.
- The pills sit at the top of the section, above the filter box. The filter only hides settings in the list; Reset and Clear still act on the whole section, including settings the filter is currently hiding.
- Click Reset to restore that section’s drop-time (or declared) defaults. Click Clear all attributes to strip that section. The canvas updates immediately.
- If that was not what you meant, Undo. The pills do not ask for confirmation.
Watch out for
- Reset on Selected Component restores placeholder content and wipes what you typed or picked. The text you wrote, the image or video you chose, the links you added — those are this section’s settings, so they go. Selected Column is untouched, so the box’s padding and colour stay.
- Reset on Selected Column does the opposite: it restores the box (padding, width, background, and the rest of the column styles a fresh drop would have) and leaves the component’s content alone. Extra column styles you added that are not part of a fresh drop are removed.
- Clear is not a softer Reset. Clear leaves the section empty, not “back to defaults.” A cleared text component has no copy until you type some; a Reset text component has the placeholder sentence again.
- Dropping a component to the left or right of an existing one does not create a new row. Reset on Entire Row still applies the “new row” starters to that existing row, which can change wrap, padding, and alignment on a row you never meant to recreate.
- Reset uses the defaults loaded in the composer right now — the built-in starters, overlaid with your project’s CSS Styles for new items. Changing those project starters later does not rewrite existing items. Only Reset does, and only for the section you click.
- Widget Settings and Collection Settings have no Reset. Clear there removes the visual CSS on the outer box (padding, max-width, background, typography, and so on). It does not empty the rows inside, and it does not remove styles that were set in the older Container Styles dialog, if your widget still has any.
- One click is one undo step, the same as changing a single setting. There is no confirm dialog.
Related settings
Where to go next
- Back to the full attribute reference
- The Composer — the editing surface these settings live in.
- Publishing — how a change like this reaches your live site.