Text editor
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The text editor (sometimes referred to as the 'HTML editor' or even 'TinyMCE') has many icons to assist the user in entering content. Many of these icons and functions should be familiar to anyone who uses a word processor. Some examples of where you will see the text editor include: Editing Section headings, description of an activity, writing an answer to a quiz question or editing the content of many blocks.
Video introduction to the text editor
HTML editor in Moodle 2.0 video:
<mediaplayer>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJE6UhqnyjU</mediaplayer>
List of groups
For those who are not familiar with the tool bar, here are the functions listed by group using the above example. Remember that the site administrator can edit or provide additonal toolbars.
Row 1
- Font, size and heading group
- Undo and Redo group
- Find and Replace group
|Full screen toggle
Row 2
- Text effect group
- Line format group
- Formatting group
- Color group
- Paragraph group
Row 3
- Number and Bullets and indents
- Link group
- Insert group
- HTML source toggle & spellchecker
Special features
Color pickers
There are 4 levels of selecting a font or background color,
- A quick pick 5x8 matrix of colors
- "More colors" that links to Picker, Pallet and Named tabs
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A quick pick 5x8 matrix of colors -
A rainbow color picker tab -
A Pallet tab with a 18x12 matrix of colors -
A Named tab with custom pallets
Insert images and media
- 1 Insert Image - uses File picker
- 2 Insert Emoticon
- 3 Insert Media - uses File picker
- 4 Insert Equation - uses java script editor
- 5 Insert Non breaking space
- 6 Insert Custom character - Special keyboard characters
- 7 Insert Table -
File picker
Equation editor
Custom character
Insert table
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General tab -
Advanced tab
Site administration settings
Manage editors
A site administrator can enable / disable text editors in Settings > Site administration > Plugins > Text editors > Manage editors. By default the TinyMCE HTML editor and plain text area are enabled.
HTML settings
A site administrator can edit the emoticons (or smileys) used in the text editor in Settings > Site administration > Appearence > HTML settings.
