Formatting guidelines for comments/posts
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Peter Symonds posted on Sunday 30th December 2012 at 17:31Is it possible to add a very short form of the formatting guidelines underneath the text box where you post or comment?
I always find it a bit of a hassle to go to another page to get to these guidelines. It might be easier to have them on the same page that you will comment or post on in some form or another.
I know it’s not quite what you asked for, but I suspect you’ll find it more useful actually; as of now, you’ll spot a magic live preview box that appears slightly below the page as you type. That way you can check that the italics and strikethroughs and stuff actually work before you press the ‘Comment’ button. Give it a go and see if it helps.
Sort of related – Would it be possible to add the formatting guide (or even the new system) to the “Post a new topic” page?
Just realised you can use html. That is a lot easier for me. Testing as follows:
blockquote
italics
bold
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Make sure that you use the del tag for strikethrough for HTML 5 compatibility
That probably not such a good idea. Now I’ve got everything stuck on bold now.
Nice for a forum to allow HTML tags!
I seem to be stuck on bold text though!
Nope. only using style=“font-weight:normal” inside the paragraph tags seems to make your post normal again. Don’t know what went wrong there???
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Great idea. In fact, what I’ll actually do is to instigate a ‘preview’ option. Because that makes rather more sense, doesn’t it? ;)