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Learning Drupal 8

Learning Drupal 8

By : Nick Abbott, Richard Jones
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Learning Drupal 8

Learning Drupal 8

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By: Nick Abbott, Richard Jones

Overview of this book

Drupal 8 sets a new standard for ease of use, while offering countless new ways to tailor and deploy your content to the Web. Drupal 8 allows user to easily customize data structures, listings, and pages, and take advantage of new capabilities for displaying data on mobile devices, building APIs, and adapting to multilingual needs. The book takes you step by step through building a Drupal 8 website. Start with the basics, such as setting up a local “stack” development environment and installing your first Drupal 8 site, then move on to image and media handling, and extending Drupal modules. Push your knowledge by getting to grips with the modular nature of Drupal, and learning to extend it by adding new functionalities to create your new modules. By the end of the book, you will be able to develop and manage a modern and responsive website using Drupal.
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Content authoring


The settings within this section control the experience of content editing for your users. It's quite a complex area with many options, so we'll go through one step at a time.

Text formats and editors

Go to Configuration | Text formatters and editors (admin/config/content/formats).

You will see four text formats listed, the particular JavaScript editor that is assigned to them, and which roles can use them:

CKEditor is the name of the WYSIWYG editor included with Drupal 8.

We first looked at fields back in Chapters 3, Basic concepts, and Chapter 4, Getting Started with the UI. You also touched on the idea of text formats back in Chapter 5, Basic Content when you first looked at creating and editing page content, specifically the Body field, which is a text area rather than simply a single line of text.

Text formats apply whenever there is a text area field in use. It is possible to specify a text formatter on a per-field basis.

The idea of text formatters is that different markup...

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