18 Jul 2019

Miscellaneous rich text editor features

View and edit the HTML source

Click Source:


The Source screen is displayed:

In order to achieve the WYSIWYG output, the rich text editor saves all of the content as HTML. Not only can this HTML be viewed, but it can be edited as well. This permits custom formatting and styles to be added to a page, by a user with the appropriate skills. This HTML can now be directly edited, including the adding stylesheets. The edited HTML must be valid. To revert to the regular view, click Source again.

The ability to edit the HTML directly has been disabled on certain instances, at the request of the client

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