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Help:RichText editor - Full page edit mode and show blocks

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Full page mode

Full page mode opens the edit screen while removing everything outside of the edit screen. This allows for better veiwing while editing. You must exit full screen mode to save your edits. 

Showing document blocks

In PetroWiki some formatting settings can only be applied to block-level elements. From the point of view of document structure, block-level elements are elements that may contain other elements, both block and inline in type. They typically begin a new line and when some types of (block-level) styling are applied to one element within them (one letter, one word), this styling is automatically taken over by the whole block. Some examples of block elements are a paragraph, a heading, a table, a list, or a block quote.

Inline elements, on the other hand, are minor building blocks that are contained within block-level elements and are distinguished from the text that they are embedded in mainly due to stylistic distinctiveness, like italics, bold, or fixed-width font.

Since these distinctions might be confusing for the user who does not know much about HTML code and its structure, and as a result, some users may not be sure why a given formatting feature works on a whole paragraph and another just on a selected fragment, PetroWiki includes a Show Blocks feature.

When you press the Blocks button toolbar button, PetroWiki will display a grid of dotted frames around the block-level elements of the document along with their HTML tag, like p for paragraph or h1 for level 1 heading, as shown in the figure below.

Blocks example

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