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Text editor

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The Moodle 2.0 HTML standard editor uses TinyMCE but other Text editors can be used.

The standard version of the HTML editor tool bar

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.

  • HTML editor group font style.png - Font, size and heading group
  • HTML editor group color.png - Color group
  • HTML editor group find replace.png - Find and Replace group
  • HTML editor group formatting.png - Formatting group
  • HTML editor group fullscreen 1.png|Full screen toggle
  • HTML editor group HTML spell.png - HTML source toggle & spellchecker
  • HTML editor group insert.png - Insert group
  • HTML editor group link.png - Link group
  • HTML editor group lists.png - Number and Bullets and indents
  • HTML editor group paragraph.png - Paragraph group
  • HTML editor group undo redo.png - Undo and Redo group

Special features

Color pickers

  • HTML editor group color.png

There are 4 levels of selecting a font or background color,

  • 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

  • HTML editor group insert.png

This feature uses the File picker and the File bank to manage files and reposities of media files.

See also

Text editors - Moodle 2.0 will handle many kind of text editors