Input Formats in Drupal

Have you ever placed in image in Drupal and it does not show up? Or made some text bold using HTML code? The reason why it is not doing what you want is probably because Drupal is filtering the HTML. Drupal dies this for a few reasons, one of them being to protect the site. If you have someone who is not HTML literate placing HTML tags in your website, you could have serious issues down the road. So Drupal has a mechanism to filter out HTML tags. This mechanism is called Input Formats.

You can change what tags are allowed including adding and taking out tags. So if you want to allow images, you can add the tag. Or of you want to be able to use the H1 tag, you can add that.

Another feature that Input Formats has is creating web links, mail to links, and breaking paragraphs automatically. So all you have to do is type the email address and Drupal will figure out that it is an email address and create a link for you automatically.

You can also set certain roles to be able to use different input formats. This means that you can create your own filters and assign them to certain roles. So if you have someone is is HTML savvy, you may give the the rights to access more than just the filtered Input Format.

The video shows all of this in action.