You can move a tag, and edit the properties (such as title and type) of a tag in the Tags panel. Click the Options menu at the top of the Tags panel (or right-click any tag in the Tags panel), and you can choose the following options:
New Tag… – Creates a new tag after the selected item in the tags tree. Then specify the type and title of the new tag.
Cut – Cuts and copies the selected tag.
Paste – Pastes the copied tag below the selected tag at the same level.
Paste Child – Pastes the copied tag as the child tag of the selected tag.
Delete Tag – Removes the tag from the tags tree. If you remove the root (topmost) tag, all tags in the document will be removed.
Delete Empty Tags – Deletes all empty tags from the subtree of a selected tag, except for valid empty tags such as TD, TH, and Link - OBJR.
Reading Order(x) – Opens the Touch Up Reading Order dialog box.
Table Editor – Enables table editing mode to edit table cell properties. This option is available when you right-click on a table tag.
Find Tag from Selection – Finds the tag in the Tags panel that corresponds to the selected text content in the document pane.
Create Tag from Selection – Creates a tag in the logical structure tree for a selected text content in the document pane. Or from the selected tags in the Tags panel, create a tag to be a child tag under the focused tag.
Find… – Searches the page or document for artifacts, OCR suspects, unmarked comments/links/content, and add tags to found items.
Copy contents to clipboard – Copies the contents of the selected tags to clipboard.
Edit Class Map… – Chooses this option to add, change, and delete class maps for the document. Class maps store properties or attributes that are associated with elements.
Edit Role Map… – Chooses this option to add, change, and delete role maps for the document. For a document with a uniquely defined tag set which some screen reader or other assistive technology cannot read, you can map its custom tags to predefined tags in Foxit PDF Editor so that these custom tags are easier to identify and edit.
Tag Annotations – Checks this option, and all new comments and form fields will be automatically added to the tags tree after the selected tag. The option is not available for the existing comments and form fields.
Document is Tagged PDF – Flags the PDF as a tagged document. If unchecked, the flag will be removed.
Apply Role Mapping to Tags 1.7/2.0 – Applies role mapping based on PDF 1.7 or 2.0, ensuring that non-standard tags in a PDF document are mapped to standard structural tags for better accessibility and compatibility with assistive technologies.
Highlight Content – Checks this option, and the content in the document corresponding to the selected tag in the Tags panel will be highlighted with a box around.
Properties… - Opens the Object Properties dialog box.
Move a tag
To move a tag in the Tags panel, do either of the following:
- Select the tag that you want to move and drag it to the desired location. The Line icon
shows the place where the tag will be located as you drag the tag. - Right-click the tag you want to move and choose Cut from the context menu. Then right-click the tag under which you want to paste the cut tag and choose Paste or Paste Child.
- Select the tag you want to move in the Tags panel. Click the Optionsmenu at the top of the Tags panel and choose Cut. Then select the tag under which you want to paste the cut tag, and choose Paste or Paste Child from the Options menu.
Edit the tag properties
To edit the tag properties, do the following steps:
- Right-click the tag you want to edit and choose Properties….
- In the Object Properties dialog box, change the information as needed.
Tips: In the Tags panel, you can use Ctrl-Click to select multiple tags as you click, or Shift-Click to select a listed group of tags between the first and the last tag you click. Then you can move them or right-click them to do more actions.