[support] HTML in stories; links in stories....

[Earl Miles]

Vince_Leibowitz wrote:
> I have used Drupal before, and thought this was possible, but I can't
> remember how to do it. Can someone help?
> 
> 1.) How do you change the HTML that is allowed in stories? I can't get <i>
> or <blockquote> to work.

Look in the handbook for 'input filters'. You can control a lot of that quite 
nicely.

> 2.) Is there a module to dowlnoad or something that will add something where
> I can simply highlight the text I want to create a link with in a story and
> click a button that will popup a window (like Moveable Type does) so I can
> just put the URL in there rather than hassling with the <a href> tag all the
> time? I link to LONG newspaper URLs and it is a pain.

The modules TinyMCE and HTMLArea both add wysiwyg editors to Drupal that have 
that functionality.