Drupal, Remove 'Formatting Guidelines'

Submitted by Kevin on Tue, 21/04/2009 - 16:44

Q: How do I gt rid of the 'Formatting Guidelines' and related text from my Drupal submission forms?
A: You can do this in two ways (a) Install the better_formats module, or (b) hide this text by simply editing your theme's style.css file.

A very similar post to the last one - getting rid of stuff that Drupal automatically puts on some pages that may not be required by, or may conflict with, your web design. This time it's the 'Formatting Guidelines' text that Drupal places under text boxes on submission forms, to get rid of this text you can do one of two things:

(a) Install and Configure the better_formats module

Install the better_formats module, then go to the Administer/Permissions menu and scroll down to the 'better_formats' section, just un-check 'show format tips' and 'show more format tips link' for each type of user from whom you want to hide the text.

OR:

(b) Edit your theme's style.css and add the following css:

#node-form .tips, .tips + a, .tips + p {
display:none;
}

This should ensure that the offending text is blasted to oblivion. One word of warning, if you're using the TinyMCE editory you might find that this results in some buttons disappearing - so just keep an eye on it!

Thanks to all at: http://drupal.org/node/35122

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Wed, 03/11/2010 - 11:36

Stranger

Thanks

Thanks, this helped me. I did it the lazy way and eddited the CSS. But, I found that not all text disappeared. Perhaps this is because some update in the code since 2009.

Besides the suggested css:
#node-form .tips, .tips + a, .tips + p {
display:none;
}

I also addd the following CSS:
#comment-form ul.tips {
display: none;
}

This did it for me.

BTW, I tried the Captcha three times now, but some of the characters are !@#$ hard to read.