Text Formats and Editors

Standardizing HTML formats involves creating a single secure text format, configuring CKEditor toolbar buttons to match allowed HTML tags, and setting access controls to prevent format switching. This ensures consistent, safe content authoring and eliminates editor configuration conflicts.

Restrict allowed tags to those necessary for your content type—typically paragraphs, emphasis, links, lists, and headings—while blocking script, iframe, and event-handler tags. The Skill provides shell-script validation to verify tag alignment between your HTML format and CKEditor toolbar.

Multiple overlapping formats create author confusion and security risks. Best practice is a single, standardized format with aligned CKEditor settings and clear access controls. This prevents authors from switching between formats and introducing inconsistent or unsafe markup.

Configure CKEditor buttons to expose only tags defined in your Drupal HTML format, then restrict format access so authors cannot switch to formats with different tag sets. Validation scripts confirm toolbar buttons and allowed tags remain synchronized.

Allowed HTML tags define what markup Drupal accepts and stores; CKEditor buttons control which formatting options authors see in the editor. Both must align—if a button exists but its tag isn't allowed, authors create invalid content that Drupal strips.