Text editor

Note: Moodle 2.0 has a new HTML editor. For details of the HTML editor in Moodle prior to 2.0, see HTML editor.

Plantilla:Moodle 2.0The default HTML editor in Moodle 2.0 onwards is TinyMCE.

HTML editor in Moodle 2.0 video:

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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.

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

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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

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  A rainbow color picker tab

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  A Pallet tab with a 18x12 matrix of colors

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  A Named tab with custom pallets

Insert images and media

The Insert images and media group

• 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

Upload file screen

Equation editor

Custom character

Insert table

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  General tab

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  Advanced tab

See also

• Text editors - Moodle 2.0 will handle many kind of text editors
• Pre Moodle 2.0 HTML editor tool bar
• Site administration>Appearence>HTML settings - to change emoticon HTML code or images
• Site administration>>Plugins>Text editors - change spellchecker and manage text editors