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Enabling styled text with a WYSIWYG editor

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Enabling styled text with a WYSIWYG editor

Now that we know how to work with modules, I'm going to show you how to install a WYSIWYG editor that lets you style text visually. Now that word WYSIWYG is an acronym. It describes what it does. It stands for What You See Is What You Get. This course is almost entirely about Drupal as you get it from drupal.org without adding any modules. But I wanted to include a video about this one for two reasons. First, the lack of a WYSIWYG editor is a huge shortcoming in Drupal that a lot of site designers want to fix. Second installing a WYSIWYG tool is pretty complicated, so doing it gives me an opportunity to help you get used to installing complex tools. I've already installed the WYSIWYG module, which you can get at drupal.org/project/wysiwyg. If you need any help installing it see the video on finding and installing modules, but to turn it on we just go up to Modules, close the CORE group and there it is, a simple check box, and Save configuration. Once we've done that we see the…

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