Drupal Info
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Drupal Editor
When you open an existing page or create a new one the Body section of the page will include an editor which uses icons to add html code invisibly.
Copy and Paste
The editor uses keyboard controls: cntrl-x for cut, cntrl-v for paste, and cntrl-c for copy.
The best way to paste material is to use the icon with a clipboard and the Yellow T. Use crtl-V to paste the material in. This will strip out all the code, including email and web addresses. If you want to retain those, then best to copy to a Word file first, and then copy and then use the Drupal editor with the clipboard marked with the W and copy using cntrl-V.
Copy/paste from external web pages
When you copy and paste directly into drupal's WYSIWYG editor additional code got copied, this additional code can break the layout of certain pages.
There are three different options to paste external content into drupal:
1. Paste
2. Paste as plain text
3. Paste from Word
Paste
Copies the html code found on the copied external page like, tables, links, references to images, font sizes and colours, etc.
Paste as plain text
Copies only the text found on the copied external page removing any html formatting code.
Paste from Word
In teory this will remove additional code found on text copied from MS Word documents, but doesn't work reliably.
The preferred method to copy paste content on drupal is to use the 'Paste as plain text' option.
Adding links
Select the portion you want to be underlined with the link and then click on the link icon (chainlink with globe behind). As the dropdown menu shows there are three types of links you can insert:
a) a url
b) an “anchor” which links to a separate place on the same page; to set an anchor go to the place on the page you want to link to and click the anchor icon. You will have to give it a name. That name will then appear in the dropdown list of the anchor links which you can now insert on the page, which when clicked will take you to the anchor position of that name.
c) an email
Adding photos
External Images
When using 'Paste' content that contains images, the pasted copy will include the code found on the original page (a reference to the image) this means that the image will not be stored on our server and that at some time the image can be broken if it's removed from their original location. Also some people will consider this as hotlinking http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inline_linking and block our site to display their images, please consider also the copyright implications when copying content that include images from another site.
The best way to add an image from and external source when using 'Paste as plain text' is to download the image to our computer and then manually insert it using the upload image feature of the editor.
Place the cursor where you want your image to appear, click on the 'Insert/Edit Image' button and click the Browse server" button. This is where you can either:
a) upload a new image or
b) select an already uploaded image
Usually you will be uploading an existing image. Click the Browse button and that will show your computer's file hierarchy. Find the photo, make sure it is the right small size, and then upload it.
The photo will appear in the list at the top of the page, highlighted.
By default the image will appear "unfloated". That means the text will start at the bottom edge of the photo. Usually you will want to change that so the image can "float", meaning that text will appear beside it. Check the below instructions for floating the image left or right.
Float left or right
Place the cursor at the beginning of a paragraph where you want the image to appear.
Click on and then the Advanced tab. Find the 'Stylesheet Classes' field.
To float on the left side of the page, enter 'imgleft' without the apostrophes. Click ok and the image will be floated to the left of the contents.
To float on the right side of the page enter 'imgright' without the apostrophes. Click ok and the image will be floated to the right of the contents.