I am having issues with the comments on this site. Does anyone know what the code would be to insert buttons so people can use bold, italics, blockquotes, and how to embed url’s? If so, please comment here. I am, as always, code stupid.
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by John Cole| 13 Comments
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Tim F
Firefox users can plug-in BBCode which does auto-HTML with a right mouse click.
Tim F
Uh-oh, BBCode might use brackets instead of carats. If – [i]this[/i] – isn’t in italics then the plugin won’t work.
Tim F
Last post, I promise. With some tinkering I’ve figured out that BBCode works, but you have to make sure to click through the XHTML link.
Color, strikethrough etc.
Gary Farber
Buttons! Who needs steenkin’ buttons? Let them eat ASCII!
Nancy
The guy who did the BBCode also did a special for DKOS.
I love this extention. He’s got XTML and XHTML and you can do your own custom code all from a right click
Here is the DKOS
extention page.
I don’t know of ant blogs that have buttons to create tags
You should also get a favicon, the little symbol in the address line and bookmark/favorites column. Look in the address line for the DKOS extention link, their favicon is an orange square with ap. It makes you webite easy to pick out of bookmarks.
Perhaps a balloon.
Mason
Just a little note on your comment warning up at the top — refreshing the comment window is probably responsible for a lot of double posts, because some browsers re-send the comment data.
Nancy
I thought I would add some information about the BBCode. BBCode it self uses brackets which I don’t think you are set up for, but it also has the XHML tags as well which work almost everywhere.
You must be using firefox as your browsers to add the BBCode extention.
Firefox is a browser like Internet Explorer. Firefox is a modular system, you can add features that you like to the basic browser. BBCode is one such feature you can add, the add ons are called extentions.
The other great feature to add on to Firefox is the tabbed browsing extention. Basically you just need one window open, at the top of that window you have “Tabs” which are as many other windows as you want. It’s a much faster way to cruise.
If you’re not using firefox you should it’s more secure and much faster and easier to use as compared to IE. It literally takes two minutes to download and install Firefox and all your favorites/bookmarks come with you. You will still have IE if you need it.
I’m putting the links to the BBCode here so you can copy and paste to a window and see the screen shots, much easier to look at those outside of this comment box.
http://wiki.logicalnonsense.net/index.php?title=BBCode
The Screen shots
http://wiki.logicalnonsense.net/index.php?title=BBCode:ScreenShots
Ellen1910
As an aside, can anyone tell me which HTML(?) tags are allowed in this comment section?
Nancy
italic, blockquote, and Href/link work
test (Italics)
test (Link/Href)
bold, font size, underline, strike and img src do not
The link is the springhouse at our farm.
Ellen1910
I can get italics to work, but that’s all.
What am I doing wrong?
Ellen1910
I can get italics to work, but that’s all.
What am I doing wrong?
Nancy
The blockquote tags are used like this.
<blockquote>quote goes here </blockquote>
Use href to provide a link with associated text. The parentheses are required.
<a href=”your link/http address goes here”>associated text here </a>
Link example, the link is to an adorable picture of my daughter.
assoicated text
I highly recommend using Firefox and the BBCode extention I referred to above. I can make these tags by highlighting the text then right click and the BBCode does the rest.
Ellen1910
Nancy–
Thanks. I should have
your first answer more closely.