Learning the World » debugging http://knewquist.edublogs.org An education tech blog by Ken Newquist Sun, 04 Oct 2009 16:12:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Moodle’s Filtering of Uploaded Files http://knewquist.edublogs.org/2008/01/29/moodles-filtering-of-uploaded-files/ http://knewquist.edublogs.org/2008/01/29/moodles-filtering-of-uploaded-files/#comments Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:41:24 +0000 Kenneth Newquist http://knewquist.edublogs.org/2008/01/29/moodles-filtering-of-uploaded-files/ Last week we had a faculty member upload an HTML photo gallery to his course in Moodle. Suddenly, the pages that had looked just fine offline were a mess within Moodle. A little digging revealed that Moodle was adding on the site’s style sheets to the uploaded files. Since the HTML documents in question didn’t have local styles for all of the Moodle ones, the layout exploded.

The reason for this? We had set “filteruploadedfiles” to “all” (this option is located under Administration > Appearance > Filter Settings > Filter uploaded files). When it’s turned on, Moodle will add the site CSS — but not the site headers and footers — to any HTML page that’s been uploaded to it.

It’s also used for automatic linking filters  (glossary, hyperlinks, etc.) so if you turn it off, you’ll lose that sort of filtering on  uploaded HTML pages as well. We don’t anticipate that will be a problem however; the addition of the extra CSS to the page is.

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