Trying to integrated quicktags.js in comment form

davincim
(@davincim)

18 years, 12 months ago

I’ve seen a number of blogs provide a selection of buttons used to markup text in their comments. I’m trying to do that on my blog, but am having some difficulty.

I tried integrating the comments form found on the Rin theme into my Blix theme, but I can’t even get the thing to show up. I was told that it was based on the script at Alex King’s site (http://www.alexking.org/index.php?content=software/javascript/content.php)
. From the looks of that site, it requires a lot more knowledge than I have because I can find no instructions at all…just a bunch of code.

Anyone here know how to make this code work? My test blog is http://familywebwatch.com/blog_test/2005/04/18/latest-id-theft-scam-could-be-in-your-inbox/

Thanks for any help!

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Mark (podz)
(@podz)

18 years, 12 months ago

Owen is the man:
http://www.asymptomatic.net/wp-hacks

Comment Quicktags. May be useful to use / study ?

Thread Starter davincim
(@davincim)

18 years, 12 months ago

Thanks podz! I’ll give it a whirl.

Thread Starter davincim
(@davincim)

18 years, 12 months ago

Okay, I’m making progress. The buttons are showing and functioning.

I’ve reviewed the plugin code and saw where the buttons are, but I can’t find where the “Dict.” and “Close Tags” buttons are programmed.

Where are those coming from and what does “Close Tags” do exactly? I figured it would close the tags, but evidently that’s not what it’s about because it didn’t do that.

Thread Starter davincim
(@davincim)

18 years, 12 months ago

Okay, I tried the “close tags” in IE and saw that it indeed closed the tags (frustrating that FF doesn’t do it).

So now my other question remains: where are those buttons coming from if not in the plugin code? I’m thinking about removing the “close tags” button, but can’t do that until the code is found.

[of course, this means that it’s probably staring me right in the face :P, but perhaps a fresh pair of eyes and wisdom could help ]

Kafkaesqui
(@kafkaesqui)

18 years, 12 months ago

“where are those buttons coming from if not in the plugin code?”

wp-admin/quicktags.js

Thread Starter davincim
(@davincim)

18 years, 12 months ago

Oh I see now. It’s locating that file. Thanks for helping me connect the dots, Kaf! 🙂

Tim Griffin
(@tgriff)

18 years, 12 months ago

How does one change the width of the tags showing up on the comments form? The tags appear when I aply the quicktags plugin, but in two columns and quite wide!

whooami
(@whooami)

18 years, 12 months ago

tgriff, it tells you that inside the plugin file, read it 🙂

brianbonner
(@brianbonner)

18 years, 12 months ago

How do i get the buttons on my comments popup?