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By Ken McLean on
I am new to Drupal and I can't figure out how to get the the wysiwyg toolbars to appear on user generated content.
I am using Drupal 7.x and I installed the wysiwyg module version 7-2.1. I downloaded several wysiwyg editors and placed them in the sites/all/libraries directory as instructed. I then configured the wysiwyg module to associate it with each of the editors. The drop-down list on the configuration screen displayed all of the editors I downloaded and was able to associate each editor with the wysiwyg module so the system seems to be recognizing the editors. I also configured each editor to add a selected list of editor icons to the toolbar. However, when I tried to add new content, the editing toolbar did not appear regardless of which editor I tried. I tried clearing the cache but that made no difference.
As an experiment, I created a minimal new site with just the wysiwyg module and the same theme (footheme) and the toolbars appeared as designed. So, I am thinking that maybe there is some incompatibility between the wysiwyg module and one or more of the other many modules I have added to my site.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how I might get the toobars to appear? Thanks for your help.
Ken McLean
Comments
Hi Ken, If you've
Hi Ken,
If you've successfully configured the WYSIWYG to work from a basic install, then it would suggest your current implementation of modules/themes could be conflicting with the WYSIWYG's. To see which one(s) is the culprit, I would suggest turning them off one-by-one, starting with the theme (switch to a default theme, one that came with Drupal).
-= Gerrit Brands
wysiwyg toolbars
Thanks Gerrit
I tried your suggestion. I switched to a default theme (Bartik) and disabled each module other than those in Core and the toolbars still fail to appear. I have not added any code. Could the database have gotten out of synch? Do you have any other suggestions get the toolbars to work? Thanks.
Ken McLean
Do you know if any javascript
Do you know if any javascript errors are occurring? You can use Firebug to see what errors may be occurring.
-= Gerrit Brands
wysiwyg toolbars
Thanks again Gerrit. I used Firebug to check for errors and found that the module was missing a java script file. It now works OK.
Ken McLean