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Those who have worked with CKEditor before must have noticed that its text area is an iframe. On closer observation, it can be seen that the width of the input text area exceeds the iframe's size on several occasions. This brings about a horizontal scrollbar, which makes the user scroll in order to read the text that appears on the right screen.

This article offers a simple fix to resolve this scrollbar issue. As shown in the article, you will have to visit the CKEditor’s configuration page and make an update to get rid of the issue.

The world today has witnessed a change in the marketing channels used for communication. The action has shifted from conventional computers to a mobile-friendly world. A responsive theme will help businesses ensure their websites are compatible on handheld devices. This article will explain how to create an Omega subtheme so that your website runs efficiently on platforms such as cell phones, tablets, laptops, desktops and televisions. This article will demonstrate how to create an Omega subtheme using Drupal administration. As shown in the article, the Omega Tools module will have to be installed for this purpose.

This article will demonstrate how to create a block view in Drupal 7. For beginners, it is important to note that there are multiple view modes – the two most common ones being block view and page view. The article briefly explains the difference between these two view modes.

Feeds is a very useful module and quite popular as well! Coming out of the box, it supports RSS, OPML, CSV and XML from HTTP and local files. This article features the steps for creating content by importing CSV files using the Feeds module. Follow the instructions in the article to get the configuration done right.

Drupal allows users to customize their pages by changing theme settings in the administration section. This can be achieved by creating new settings through the addition of fields of your choice. The article shows how to achieve this through a step-by-step procedure using screenshots. You will have to create a theme-settings.php file to achieve this.

The 404 Not Found page is probably the most common error you will come across online. The 403 Forbidden error is quite commonly seen as well. A concern faced by developers is how to create error pages in Drupal. This article will help you create your own 403 and 404 pages whenever required. This will result in correct redirection to your custom pages whenever required.

As shown in the article, you will have to create two nodes. One each for 403 and 404.

This article demonstrates how to create a sub-theme in Drupal 7. The article also explains in brief the characteristics of a sub-theme and the properties it inherits from the parent theme. Does a sub-theme inherit logos and favicons? Learn the answer to this and a lot more in the article. The article also lists the fields you will encounter while creating a sub theme.

The Services module makes life very easy for Drupal developers. You can use this module to create an efficient web service. The module includes commonly used services such as create a node, reading a node, reading a user profile, logging in a user, among many other services. At Red Crackle, we realized that the service to request a new user password was missing. We resolved this issue by writing some code as shown in the article.

As you already know, the AJAX framework facilitates the creation of dynamic web pages on client side machines. Drupal 7 features a host of AJAX framework commands that can be used to call jQuery commands. But what should be done to perform complex functionality? How do you create customer Ajax commands? This article demonstrates this through video and code.

The Overlay module is quite easy to work with. Drupal 7 – by default – comes with Overlay module. This article demonstrates how to open any link in an overlay (and not just admin ones).

It is common knowledge that only admin links are open in an overlay. In order to open non-admin links, you will have to implement hook_admin_paths_alter(). In the article, a new function has been created for this purpose. On execution of the code, even non-admin links will begin to run in an overlay.