Keeping an email template consistent becomes harder as it grows. Padding, colors, and font sizes drift block by block, and small one-off adjustments quietly pile up until the template no longer reflects your brand baseline. This new defaults system addresses this in two parts: you define the standard values for each block type, and the editor makes any deviation from those values visible and reversible for each block.
Setting your defaults first
Before reset becomes useful, it helps to know where the defaults come from. In the left sidebar, open Settings and scroll down to Element defaults. You'll find a panel for each block type, such as Button defaults, Divider defaults, Image defaults, Section defaults, and so on.
Anything you set here becomes the starting value for every new block of that type. Whatever you set will be the value that new blocks of that type automatically pick up.
Element defaults are saved with the template. If you build email campaigns from a master template, your defaults carry over.
How the editor shows that a value has been changed
Once your defaults are in place, the editor tracks which values you modify in individual blocks. Select a block, then look at the right sidebar. Any input whose value differs from your template default shows a small "×" icon next to it. Inputs that still match the default show no icon.
This works for almost every adjustable property in the editor.
Resetting a single value
Reverting a customized value takes one click:
Select the block you want to adjust in the editor canvas.
Look at the property panel on the right-hand sidebar.
Find the input with the small × next to it (that's the value that's been customized).
Click the ×. The value snaps back to your template default, and the × disappears.
Only the field you clicked is reset. The rest of the block stays exactly as you had it.
When this comes in handy
A few situations where the reset option saves time:
Reverting a quick experiment: You tried a different button color (or padding, or border radius) and decided the default was better after all. One click on the × icon is faster than retyping the original value.
Cleaning up a customized block: When several properties on a single block have drifted from your defaults, you can reset them one at a time without deleting and re-adding the block.
Handing a template off to a teammate: Element defaults, plus the × icon, make it clear which values on any block have been changed from the template baseline, so teammates can experiment freely and bring things back in line later.
Auditing before sending: Scan the sidebar of any block, and the visible × icons tell you at a glance what's been customized.
A few things to keep in mind
Let's end this with a few noteworthy things to keep in mind:
Defaults are set per template: To share defaults across multiple templates, set them in a master template and duplicate from there.
Changing a default doesn't update existing blocks: If you update Element defaults after adding blocks, existing blocks retain their current values. New blocks added afterward will use the new defaults. To bring older blocks in line, click the × next to each customized value.
Reset works one property at a time: There's no single button to reset an entire block at once, so you never lose more than you intended.
If anything doesn't work as you'd expect, please reach out to our support team!