topic Change Edit Widget Text in Experience Builder Developer Edition in ArcGIS Experience Builder Questions

Change Edit Widget Text in Experience Builder Developer Edition

Matthew_Silski — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 21:30:24 GMT

Hi! I'm trying to customize an Experience Builder app by changing the text in the Edit widget to make the tool more user-friendly. I can't figure out how to update the "Editor" heading. I've looked throughout the code to find a reference to it and ChatGPT/Gemini/Copilot haven't been able to trace it.

Do you have any ideas where that "Editor" text can be updated in code?

Re: Change Edit Widget Text in Experience Builder Developer Edition

JeffreyThompson2 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 15:03:50 GMT

The Experience Builder Editor Widget is built on top of the JavaScript API Editor Component. As far as I can tell, the title is not exposed as a configurable option, so changing it would involve hacking in through the shadow-root and attempting to change it that way. According to the JavaScript API team, if you ever feel the need to hack the shadow-root, you should notify them and request making it an editable option, so go do that, too.