Drupal Module Highlight - Handy Filters For Churches and Businesses

Let's face it, once we hand off our nicely built drupal sites to the users who will add content to them they often enter content that's just ugly and can even break the look on the pages. Sometimes they use things that are as ugly as the blink tag. To stop this we can use things like the HTML filter in drupals core but that doesn't take care of every possibility. What if they don't close a tag that you let through the filter? What if they want to copy and paste something from Microsoft Word?

After reading Bob, of Mustardseed Media, blog post about why not to install TinyMCE I realized that we couldn't have been the first to face this common problem and we weren't. So, here's a couple modules to help with this problem.

HTML corrector

HTML corrector is a great module that counts the open tags and closes them as needed. You no longer have to worry about the content leaving a div open that messes up the look of a page. Note:drupal.org uses this module.

Htmltidy

Htmltidy does what it's name suggests. It tidies up the HTML output. This includes a nice option to clean up clean up Microsoft Word text.

These are just a couple modules and I'm sure there are many others (HTML2Book looks promising). If you know you any I'd love to read about them.