WYSIWYG

The WYSIWYG module does a great job of centralizing and abstracting the use of various graphical editors in Drupal. Its relative newness means it is poorly and confusingly documented in some respects. I recently had to add the headings plugin for TinyMCE and ran into a lot of confusing information about how to make that happen.

The quicktags module provides a tinymce-button-style solution for formatting wiki posts. Quicktags adds buttons to the textarea and uses on-the-fly generated javascript. It is not a wysiwyg editor, but something far simpler: It simply inserts the basic code into your textarea.

Here is a screenshot of quicktags in action:

The following article is part of s series on Setting up a Drupal Site for Internationalization.