By yongli on

I am new to Drupal, so please excuse me for this silly question.

Right now I am trying to find out if Drupal can be used by most users who do not know html well. Adding drupal.org is easy for programmers. However most users won’t want to learn that before they can post. They would rather click an adding link button and then type in http://drupal.org. I have used TypePad and found the “compose post” is very easy to use. Users can click buttons on the top of message composing box to format text (bold, italic, insert link, ordered list, insert image, upload file). Is there a Drupal module that offers such simple editing features?

Or is it doable to add javascript to the Drupal’s “create content” page to achieve that?

Thanks

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gnat’s picture

gnat commented

there are a number of modules that change the way text editing is handled. all of the ones that i have used have worked as i wanted them to with no headache.

you should read through and find the one that will work best for you.

Samat Jain’s picture

Samat Jain commented

Yes, in fact Drupal has three in-browser WYSWYG editors: TinyMCE, HTMLArea, and FCKEditor.

And that brings about the problem: IMHO there is no "best", as each module as features I personally wish another had. You're best to evaluate all 3 and see what works best for you.
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conann’s picture

conann commented

Since moving to Drupal live has been easy. I am an"Artist" so this stuff should be hard but drupal has made it easy

Conánn

yongli’s picture

yongli commented

Wow, I am so happy to hear this. I definitely will try all of them out.

Thanks a lot.