I have added some writing onto the front page of my moodle 1.8 by editing the summary of the topic
Now when i hover over the edit button i dont get the hand symbol and i am therefore unable to edit the text anymore. Does anyone know what is causing this. Is there another way i can get to the code of the page to edit it?
...or try click your name and select from Edit user profile -> When editing text ... Use standard web forms
(then you don't get editor buttons but it is not a site wide change)
change code, save and change profile back to
Use HTML editor
You have still many ways to edit that. If you have phpmyadmin look at table
mdl_course_sections
and edit that field with phpmyadmin.
Or try
http://yourserveraddress/course/editsection.php?id=2
so that editor is not on (choose web forms instead of html editor from your profile first if the editor does not open)
That "hand icon" may vanish if section has for example some javascript or too large iframes or some content that breaks html code (unclosed tags). Htmlarea has a capability to break valid code (for example javascript event handlers) so that it may work once but when you edit it again editing may stop working. Try also another browser...
Thanks Mauno,
Just changing to firefox has done the trick
i've realised the bit i specifically have the problem with is the topic on the front page. I cannot edit the summary of it though i could before
Does that link not work?
What section exactly is it on the front page? ......there's a way around everything 
