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2.7 Text editor HTML tag issue - commented out text

by Carolyn Hodgman - Thursday, July 24, 2014, 12:29 AM

Hi,

We've recently installed 2.7 and on using the HTML text editor have put in text to reveal later so attempted to comment out the text until it was needed i.e.

When going back in to HTML mode then back to text editor the commented out text disappears. We've tried with IE, Firefox and Chrome.

It worked on our previous 2.2 version but don't know about the later versions.

Has anyone else had this issue? Do you know how to resolve it? is it a known bug or something we're doing wrong?

Thanks,

Re: 2.7 Text editor HTML tag issue - commented out text

by Damyon Wiese - Thursday, July 24, 2014, 10:12 AM

This is done on purpose as part of the automatic cleaning to prevent garbage being pasted into the editor from MS Word.

This alternative will work:
<div style="display: none">My hidden text here</div>

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Re: 2.7 Text editor HTML tag issue - commented out text

by Carolyn Hodgman - Thursday, July 24, 2014, 4:50 PM

Thanks for that Damyon. Really helpful.

The issue is we have a lot of either code for use later or commented out text for documentation throughout the installation. Do you know if there's a way of recovering this?

Perhaps we can go back to a previous version. Do you know which version cleaning out comments started?

Many thanks,

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Re: 2.7 Text editor HTML tag issue - commented out text

by Daniel Thies - Thursday, July 24, 2014, 8:41 PM

Hello Caroline,

I believe you are talking about using Atto editor which is part of Moodle 2.7 that was released in May. I would secure any backups of your site both now and if possible from before the uprade to make sure nothing gets lost. You can enable TinyMCE in your user profile or systemwide until you can make the changes.

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Re: 2.7 Text editor HTML tag issue - commented out text

by Carolyn Hodgman - Friday, July 25, 2014, 7:16 PM

Thanks Daniel,
Indeed, we found it was just a case of making TinyMCE default rather than Atto, and the comments are still there.
Much better than having to go to the back-up of the previous 2.4 install.
Cheers!

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