How can we change it from a plain text editor to showing the editing tools by default?
Thank you,
Barbara
Hello Barbara
i was wondering the same question.. Did you find an answer meanwhile?
Thanks,
Ana
Hi Barbara and Anna
U want to show HTML editor to be default instead of plain text then you can go to Administration ▶ Site administration ▶ Plugins ▶ Text editors ▶ Manage editors . And keep the Tiny MCE HTML editor at the top then when you edit a page it will be default.
Hi Sakshi,
I don't think your solution works - what you describe is to have the Tiny MCE editor as the default editor. Barbara and Anna are wondering how to have the editing tools of Tiny MCE shown by default instead of having to click the "Show editing tools" button, which appears in place of the editing icons in the Tiny MCE editor since Moodle 2.5 in assignments and activities.
If you (or anyone else) knows a way to turn off this behavior, I would appreciate as knowing how to do this as well.
Thanks,
Paul
I agree with Paul. The issue is that in Moodle 2.5 the TinyMCE editor has been changed so it does not show the toolbar unless you click the "Show editing tools" button. This is confusing to many users, and at least at our institution we have gotten requests to change the default behaviour so the toolbars show by default.
I had posted another thread on this, but never got a solution. I will second Paul's call that if anyone knows how to do this, I would very much appreciate them sharing that.
Thanks!
If yours is giving you the show editing tool option, consider yourselves lucky. Mine doesn't even appear, nor does the expand all function work. Nothing we've tried so far has resolved this problem!
Timothy Beach
Hello,
I don't have a solution to this, but I have posted an improvement request in the tracker:
"Make it possible to show the TinyMCE HTML editor tools as default"
Please vote for it.
From an interface design point of view it is really pointless. Save very little in the way of real estate, causes to user an unnecessary click, causes confusion.
Would love to hear the logic of why this is a good thing.
I've found a simple hack in 2.51 to make it show the expanded form by default - it doesn't show the toggle at all.
Unfortunately it does require access to the server files and editing core code (but only changing one word!)
in /course/moodleform_mod.php
In the function add_intro_editor
edit the line
$mform->addElement('editor', 'introeditor', $label, array('rows' => 10), array('maxfiles' => EDITOR_UNLIMITED_FILES,
'noclean' => true, 'context' => $this->context, 'collapsed' => true));
and change 'collapsed' => true to 'collapsed' => false
It's a shame that it's necessary to edit core code to do this but at least it provides an interim solution.
Peter
Just to update.. In 2.9 the toggle can be disabled by hiding the Toolbar Toggle button in the TinyMCE Editor settings. So no code editing required any more, but still not as obvious as it might be.
Peter
Also in Atto from Site administration>Plugins>Text editors>Atto HTML editor>Atto toolbar settings, removing the setting 'collapse = collapse'. S from toolbar config box. Text editor FAQ