How to format text

pjmac - January 20, 2009 - 19:55

I think I might be missing something. When I create a new page and enter text in the text box, I don't see a formatting toolbar anywhere. I have hunted around and can't find one. Is there no text formatting? I would imagine that there must be and that it would include tools for adding images, etc. I see that there are HTML tags that are accepted, but is this the only way? Thanks. Paul

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Take your choice

yelvington - January 20, 2009 - 20:11

http://drupal.org/project/tinymce
http://drupal.org/project/fckeditor
http://drupal.org/project/htmlarea
http://drupal.org/project/nicedit
http://drupal.org/project/widgeditor
http://drupal.org/project/whizzywig
http://drupal.org/project/wymeditor
http://drupal.org/project/wysiwygpro
http://drupal.org/project/xstandard
http://drupal.org/project/yui_editor
http://drupal.org/project/bbcode_wysiwyg

you need to install a rich text editor

mattyoung - January 20, 2009 - 20:13

Choose one of these:

http://drupal.org/project/fckeditor
http://drupal.org/project/tinymce

Follow carefully the instructions in the INSTALL.txt file

for a basic editor

silverwing - January 20, 2009 - 20:16

http://drupal.org/project/bueditor is pretty basic but gets the job done

~silverwing

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FCKeditor + ICME

trojanowski - January 20, 2009 - 21:10

The best way to the efective work for me.Install FCKeditor + FCKeditor module + ICME module.Read carefully both of modules README, set a permissions and ICME intergration and enjoy!

My next move

pjmac - January 21, 2009 - 00:59

yelvington, mattyoung, silverwing, trojanowski:

Thanks for your help. It sounds like FCKedit is the consensus choice for an online editor, so I have downloaded it.

Now I'm not sure what to do with those files. I'm assuming that it goes into my website directory but I'm not certain exactly where it goes. I opened the Docs help for the tool, but it does not have an Installation section (that I could find, anyway). Do I just place the entire fckeditor unzipped directory in the root folder?

Thanks again,
Paul

:)

trojanowski - January 21, 2009 - 09:57

U have to get 2 files.FCKeditor module from drupal.org and Fckeditor from http://www.fckeditor.net/.Put fckeditor to the fckeditor module directory.ist should look like this sites/all/modules/fckeditor/fckeditor/.Work?

There is a "README.txt" file inside the module

mattyoung - January 23, 2009 - 01:33

Read that and follow the steps there.

I found a video on how to install this module: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1suHskbL1pE

Up and working now

pjmac - January 25, 2009 - 17:50

matt, trojanowski,

I'm up and running with FCKEditor now. Thanks so much for your advice. That video certainly helped a lot. I like that with FCKEditor I can actually apply styles that are in my site's CSS, not just some default CSS styles that some other editors appear to be limited to.

Paul