HTML Editor

To assist in creating html the Application Engine offers a wysiwyg ("what you see is what you get") html editor. This how-to will explain the most common options the editor offers. Full documentation of the editor is available here: http://www.tinymce.com/

New lines

Use SHIFT-ENTER to go to a new line without starting a new paragraph. (cursor goes to the next line). Use ENTER to start a new paragraph.

Pasting text

If you copy text from another source such as a word processor or a website, the text will contain formatting information such as font type, font size, bold etc... This information, escpecially from word processors is usually not ideally suited for publishing on the internet. Therefore, by default any text pasted from an outside source is copied as plain text, without the formatting information. Reformatting the text with the editor takes some time but will result in better mark-up.

If you DO want to preserve the formatting, deactivated "Paste as text" from the "Edit" menu. Now the editor will try to keep the formatting as best as possible.

Formatting your page

This menu can be used to format the text in your page. You can make it bold, italic and underline it. You can set the position and the function (normal text, headings). The option "Clear formatting" removes formatting from the selected text. When this might not work, consider copying the text to the clip board and pasting it into the text.

Insert special characters, video and more...

From this menu you can insert special characters from a popup window, for example the Euro sign, diacrites, methametical symbols. You can also create hyperlinks, insert an image, set its size and other visual properties.

Creating tables

This menu is used to create and edit tables. These are used to present data in a tabular way, with or without the table itself being visible.

Undo and redo changes

With these buttons you can undo your changes or redo them after using undo.

Full screen editing

For full screen editing, choose this option from the "View" menu.

Edit the html code

To edit the HTML code choose "Source code" from the "Tools" menu.