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The tell-raw generator builds a coloured chat message for Minecraft and hands you the finished command.
An ordinary chat message is just text. Tell-raw takes a whole data structure instead: every piece carries its own colour and style, and any piece can be given a click action or a hover tooltip. Writing that by hand hurts, so the editor assembles the structure for you.
The message is put together from segments. For each one you pick a colour — sixteen vanilla ones or any of your own — and the styling: bold, italic, underline, strikethrough. A click can open a link, run a command, suggest one in the chat box, copy text to the clipboard, or turn a book page. A hover shows a tooltip, an item or an entity.
At the top you choose who receives it: every player, the nearest one, yourself, or a specific nickname. At the bottom sit four output formats, because the syntax has shifted over the years: two generations of Java, the newest one, and Bedrock separately — Bedrock simply ignores click actions. The preview beside it shows what the player will actually see, in chat or on a book page.
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