Quote Highlighted Text 0.1.2 [ALPHA]

[David Clark]

Download alpha v. 0.1.2

Hi guys, I just finished the alpha version of this plugin that lets you quickly quote specific text from people's posts without having to quote the whole thing and then pick it apart in the reply box! I rarely want to quote someone's entire message and most often just want to acknowledge one part of what they said, so this helps me to do that.

All you have to do is click and drag to highlight the text in the post that you want to quote, then a little "Quick Quote" button will appear at your mouse's position. Click this, and the text you have highlighted will jump to the quick reply area and badda bing you're ready to go! I made some GIFs to show how it works:

A little disclaimer though, this plugin is in its earliest stages and I'm certain there are a few bugs to be found. Anyone who would like to help me bug test it is welcome to give it a go, but hopefully it does the trick for you out-of-the-box for the most part.

KNOWN ISSUES:

• Always quote an original post, don't try to highlight and quick-quote a quote. Q: Why? A: It JUST DOESN'T WORK RIGHT NOW.
• There was at least one instance where unfortunate mouse placement caused me to quote the entire HTML of the post I was trying to quote, including things like the button/dropdown elements that you would use to delete your post. If it seems like a TON of extra BBCode was inserted into the Quick Reply area (like, 2x - 3x more than what you see in GIF #1 above) then just clear it out and try again. Be sure to carefully click and drag only the text you want, ensuring your mouse cursor lands within the message area when you release the click.
• If you use default BBCode to style your posts a certain way and attempt to use the quick quote to quote a portion of the post, the text will not have the styling applied. If the styling begins somewhere within the post like this, though, it'll quote with the style intact. 
• In some cases, mis-highlighting and then trying it again will produce multiple instances of a quote.

SOLVED ISSUES:

• v0.1.2
• Now works in Firefox! So I got that goin for me.

[Jaguar]

SWEET, I'll test it out for you.

[Jaguar]

Okay I really like this one. It doesn't recognize BBCode choices, but I don't know if that's an issue. I've told other Admins about it too.

[David Clark]

Can you be a bit more specific about what wasn't working for you Jaguar? Maybe it's something I can fix quick

[Jaguar]

Okay let me go play with it cause I noticed it bypassed my BBCode choices.

[Jaguar]

Go check on my testing board where I've been playing with this.



It's a closed board, and I'll edit this post to remove it.

[David Clark]

You're right Jaguar, for those that use default BBCode to style their entire post a certain way, it doesn't look like it's picking up on those. If you have styling that begins somewhere within the post like this, though, it should pick up on that.

I'll try to address the default BBCode issue in a future update.

[Jaguar]

Yeah thank you, see I'm personally getting away from using styling my posts, but a lot do use it.

[Jaguar]

Jul 27, 2014 14:39:35 GMT -8 David Clark said:

You're right Jaguar, for those that use default BBCode to style their entire post a certain way, it doesn't look like it's picking up on those. If you have styling that begins somewhere within the post like this, though, it should pick up on that.

I'll try to address the default BBCode issue in a future update.

It didn't pick up on the BBCode styling from others. I just tested Moon and Scottish_Lassie and neither styling showed up.

[David Clark]

Right, the issue there is that the styling is designated at the very beginning of the post and for some reason the plugin doesn't want to grab that. I'll have to come up with a patch later that checks to see if there's styling applied to the entirety of the message.

[Jaguar]

Yeah I like this a lot so that's why I'm testing it every which way I can fathom. I just had to do computer stuff, computer has been lagging all day. It's fixed now.

[Jaguar]

Moon and myself are testing it on my Board, Moon has some issues in that the QUICK QUOTE thingy doesn't show up.

I cross browser tested it, IE11 and Chrome 36.0.1985 it works, FF30 and FF31 it doesn't.

[David Clark]

Good to know, Jaguar, I'll look into that.

[David Clark]

Just updated the plugin to work in Firefox now, Jaguar!

[Jaguar]

Oh geez I didn't think you would get to this, thanks so much. Namaste.