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MO Paragraph Trimmer Filter Documentation
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Summary
Description
We use FCKeditor on all of our Drupal websites. This greatly helps in simplifying the editing of each web page.
The result is often much better because you much less hesitate to use some bold, Courier font, underscore, italic...
Having to type those in HTML, even though it is easy, makes it tedious!
Now with each great thing comes a downside... like all the WYSIWYG editor I've tested, once in a while, FCKeditor leaves a set of empty paragraphs at the end of the page.
For some sites, this is not much of a problem. Actually, some people like to keep some empty space at the end of their pages. For most of our sites, it is a problem, especially when there are footnotes. We do not want the footnotes to appear all the way at the bottom. They need to be right under the content!
For this reason we created this module. It searches your page content and removes empty paragraphs. It can delete these at the start, the end or in the middle of the paragraph.
At this time, it only deletes the default empty paragraphs created by WYSIWYG editors:
<p> </p>
Thus, you can have the filter turned on and still insert empty lines by adding one more space in the empty line you want to keep. It then won't be removed.
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Installation
In order to install MO Paragraph trimmer filter, extract the tarball under your sites/all/modules folder.
Then go to Drupal on your site and enable this module. The module is found under Input filter. The module tells you when it gets installed (and uninstalled.)
Now go to your Input filters (Under Site configuration.) There you will be able to select your newly installed filter.
Click Save, then go back to the filter and click on Configure. There you can select what empty paragraphs you want removed. By default, only the end paragraphs are removed.
You can now test the filter by going to a node and adding empty lines at the start in between paragraphs and at the end to see the result.
There should be no problem with the order if you remove all the empty paragraphs. Otherwise, depending on the other filters you are using, you may need to push the MO Paragraph trimmer filter higher up in your list of filters (i.e. if you use the Foot notes filter, it will add the foot note and then the paragraphs at the end of the source node won't be removed if the Middle flag is not set.)
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on Sat Mar 12 16:05:45 2011