I’ve released my JavaScript Quicktags under the LGPL license as planned. This means that anyone (open source projects, closed source, commercial, etc.) can use them.
Here is an example page so you can see how they work, and here is the download.
Capsule, The Developer’s Code Journal
I’m very pleased today to announce the release of Capsule, the developer’s code journal. Capsule replaces the scratch document you have…
Any chance you’d add acronym to that?
I think you’re capable of copying the 5 lines to add it.
Well, I just had a look at it and I wondered where the difference between the new js and the phpmyadmin function insertAtCursor() you posted on your site was. (Besides the fact that the new one looks much more difficult to understand, the output seems to be pretty similar to me.)
Christian
There isn’t much difference, this is an implementation of it for HTML quicktags.
Alex: you are right, of course. But you know that someone had to start asking for features … might as well be someone whose ears you can box with abandon!
Javascript Quick Tags (GPL)
Matt posted a link to Alex’s javascript quick tags. I’ll need to update my “deCoder” javascript using that (if I can) – since Alex’s javascript DOES work with Firefox – and my (current) deCoder does not….
Is it me, or does the ‘cursor-awareness’ not function in Safari? Works lovely in Firefox.
Nope, they aren’t cursor aware in Safari and won’t be until Safari supports getting the cursor position in a textarea. This is actually noted in the comments at the top of the file.
After finding your fantastic site while looking for WordPress hacks I came across this great post, which is just what I was in the middle of making for an intranet site. No point reinventing the wheel… Thanks!
Excellent!
Alex, thanks a a lot. I just integrated this with a cmsimple site I am working on, and it works like a charm.
I wrote up instructions for other cmsimple users at http://www.cmsimple.[...]ic.php?t=869
Alex – I start to gloss over when I read the license text. I modified your code mostly to simplify it to the most “popular” tags people use in comments – that is: bold, italic, link. (I also added h3 since that’s what I use to stylize code on scriptygoddess). I’d like to offer the code for download with instructions on how to include it on wp-comments (obviously with credit to you for the script itself). Does the license allow me to do this?
The short answer is yes, you just need to abide by the rules in the license. See #2 in the license for more details of what you need to do (commenting your changes, etc.).
design notes, pt. 2
welcome back to today’s last design notes. as you can easily see, nothing changed too drastically anymore. i’m very happy with the color scheme and the handling of the whole site. i really get along well with movable type. i…
Safari Friendly Buttons
JS Quicktags Under LGPL – Safari-friendly buttons for WordPress…
Customising Quicktags II
A quick update to the Quicktag customisation : I just incorporated Scriptygoddess’ decodeIt function, which neatly translates ‘ into ‘>’. The original version of the function was IE-friendly only, however an update sees it working quite happ…
JavaScript Quicktags Updated
I’ve updated the JavaScript Quicktags to version 1.1. This includes a small change that keeps Mozilla from jumping to the top of the textarea when a tag is inserted.
Thanks to Chris Snell who did the research to find the Mozilla bug and submit th…
JS Quicktags Under LGPL
Thank you!!!!!! This is cool!
Oh my gosh – I searched for so long to find a tutorial on how to do this. Imagine my joy to find your code. This is fantastic. More than fantastic. Thank you so much.
Thank you very much. I didn’t think this was possible, either. I knew insertion at the cursor was possible using proprietary JS extensions (?) in MSIE only, but not anywhere else. And now this. Very cool. On Mac OS X, the code works fine with Firefox and other Gecko-based browsers like Netscape 7.x. It does NOT apparently work in MSIE on OS X, however (text inserted at end only). Like you said, it does not work in Safari either, which is a pity since it’s my browser of choice, but anyway.
I will probably add this to my “homebrew” blog software Blogoid and use it for some code patched into our University’s pinboards (http://www.uni-weimar.de/pinnwand/). Thanks again.
Nice script!
a question: do you know of any way to achieve this cursor awareness in Opeara, or know it’s not possible at all?
Opera doesn’t support it. One more reason not to use Opera.
Very nicely done!
i’d tip my hat if i had one.
Just what I needed.
Excellent bit of coding.
Now where’s that tip jar…
Right over here.
Has anyone made quicktags work for 2 distinct textarea fields on the same page?
Thank you Alex King….
decidedly cool. This is the closest to 1 to what I need for adding into aether. all I need now is to modify the tag definitions
http://www.logarithm[...]ction=manual
adding some sub tags would be interesting as well but given the fact that JavaScript is not easy to manipulate when 1) you don’t know it and 2) when you’re disabled and use speech recognition. speech recognition and programming in JavaScript just don’t get along.
anyway, I will pick out the problem as fast as my hands permit.
Alex, I’m hoping you will answer one question which is why don’t people put search/replace capability into these editors and why don’t they use keystroke commands for navigation/editing by character, word, sentence, paragraph (yes I’m an Emacs user) so that one can write speech recognition macros to let you navigate/edit by speech.
by the way, I am speaking at a conference at the end of the month hosted by the open source speech recognition initiative and it would be wonderful to be able to dropping note to them on someone willing to support us (hint hint)
Alex, this is fantastic, especially the JS quickstart! This saves me a lot of time. It took me 5 hours to get to half of this and it only worked in IExplorer. Tha
JavaScript Quicktags 1.2
I’ve released a new version of my JavaScript Quicktags. I’ve been using this version for a while now, just hadn’t gotten around to packaging it up for release.
This version has a changes:
A few additional tags, including an “External Link…
Works just dandily in Opera 8.5, just FYI. I only skimmed the comments list, so you may have already said this.
Saved me about an hour, since I hate writing JavaScript. Then again, perhaps this is not such a good thing, because I could have been paid for that hour of clicking around and looking silly.
Nice script!
a question: do you know of any way to achieve this cursor awareness in Opeara, or know it’s not possible at all?
Please post support questions in the forum, not in the blog comments.
Is it me, or does the ‘cursor-awareness’ not function in Safari? Works lovely in Firefox.
Perhaps you could read this page more carefully.
Really, really nice, man. I’ve been looking all over for something like this. I love it
. Thank you for doing this for us javascript analphabets.
Is it me, or does the ‘cursor-awareness’ not function in Safari? Works lovely in Firefox.
Nice work champ! – I’m using your brilliant script on my own website!
Hey man, this thing is awesome. I was looking all over the place, and had almost settled on an overly large and annoying rich text editor, but a small script that I can use to mark up entries is all I need. Awesome man!
Works fine in Safari 1.3. Thanks!
Great stuff! And it _does_ work in Opera (8.52 / Linux).
Florian
Is it possible to change the buttons to graphics?
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Looking good
I’m going to try and impliment Quicktags as a plugin for the Vanilla forum I think….
[...] Having used the Quicktags on WordPress for quite some while, I figured they would make a good add-on for the Vanilla forum, as they allow you to quickly apply HTML formatting to the contents of any textarea. You can also use keyboard shortcuts to apply them, and easily add your own Quicktags, which is an added bonus. [...]
Good stuff! … just a quick note though that, at least with the sample page… in the Dict lookup, if you hit cancel when it pormpts you for a word, it still proceeded to lookup “null” on the dictionary website
I have a knack for finding little bugs like this (if that’s in fact what it is). It’s the very first thing I clicked on that page.
Thanks. If that isn’t fixed in the current downloadable version I need to put out a more decent version. That was fixed a long while back.
Please use the forums for future bug reports.
Coincidence!: I’ve just been trying to do this; remembered PHPadmin’s Query page; looked at the code; didn’t recognise the selectionStart property; didn’t find it in ‘JavaScript Bible’; did a Google search and there you are at number1!!
So thanks Alex, for saving me hours of Javascript webcrawling.
BTW, it works fine on Safari 1.3.2 on insertion AND replacement.
Very useful code. And it works almost excellent in Opera 9, I tested it.
Stumbled across this. Just what I was looking for. Simple to implement. Thanks very much!
Thanks a lot Alex!
This is just what i was trying to do for a website! I was looking for cursor position in textarea and I found your website! It works so good!
Many thanks!
Alex, thanks so much for sharing this invaluable asset with us. I have spent several hours on and off over the last few months attempting to rectify the Mozilla problem, but to no avail. This is exactly the core code I need to build off of.
Thanks so much for your willingness to share with the development community!
Wow what a big help. I had just finished writing my version with just basic tags, but this pretty much replaces that. I am thrilled to find this when I did.
Hi, please forgive me if I’m missing it, I really would love to use this plugin, but I can’t find your original documentation, and there is no readme file with the download. I’m happy to donate for it, but while I am a graphic designer and have built my entire blog and customized it, it is all at great pains and slowly and with much reading. I am no developer or code writer, and am just lokoing for basic instructions on how to install this (where to put it), if I need to tweak my config file, etc.
Is there a document somewhere I am missing? I have searched your site and read many pages, so I am asking you last as I know how it is to be asked dumb questions by those not willing to expend effort.
I am using MT 3.34.
Thank you in advance for any help.
Alex thanks for this script, it is exactly what we have been looking for.
Alex this is great, thanks. When I started searching for a way to find a cursor position I never thought I’d find something that did exactly what I was trying to achieve with very little development needed.
I’ll add you a link on my new site when its up and running as you’ve saved me hours of work.
cheers.
Thank you.
Many thanks Alex,
My two day search has eventually lead me to your door. This is a fantastic script. Imagine my suprise when I first clicked on the little arrow button at the end of the toolbar to reveal even more buttons
Absolutely top notch work, even cross-browser compatible. I will be using this bit of essential code in an upcoming website of mine. Please let me know if there is anything I/We all can do to help make this code even better known (assuming you would like that;))
Thanks again
Geoff
I am trying to figure out how to implement this. I am familiart with ASP, but totally clueless when it comes to JS. I have a textarea in a form and all I need is a button that will insert a line break at the cursor position. Can anyone help in posting code for this. Thank you very much JS GODS!!!
Thanks so much for your willingness to share with the development community!
This is just what i was trying to do for a website! I was looking for cursor position in textarea and I found your website! It works so good!
Many thanks!
Just what I needed.
Excellent bit of coding.
keep up the your great work.
thank you.
Thanks this great.
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