Sorry, my fault. I missed a few words in the post above. Currently when somebody clicks on the quote button , in the text editor it becomes very difficult to figure out what is in the quotes and what is outside is and that’s why sometimes the wrong text gets quoted.

It’d be great if in the text editor, like phpbb/vbulletin we can have the quoted text marked with the text QUOTE within square brackets and then /QUOTE within square brackets(Can put the syntax because then the text editor converts this into an actual quote here :))

so that it is clear as to what to is being quoted. Currently, we do have a quote symbo(“) in the text editor toolbar which gets highlighted when something is in quotes, but it’s quite confusing to use because something it quotes the things whcih you do not want to quote and one has to change paragraphs to remove the quotes. Even after doing this, I end up quoting something wrong.

While quoting something, a user would like to focus on writing and reflecting on what he has quoted rather than be bothered about quoting/unquoting stuff which one has to do at the moment.

Hope that makes it clear.

only have had a couple folks have issue with that quote button…  I mean the cursor is prepositioned to the entry point…  if you move it, you just have to go back to the right spot…

if you want to use bbcode, ie [ quote]afdadsf[ /quote] (without the extra space), you can… its supported… just type away…  but the button is tinymce and html…

If it bothers you, I would do one of two things…  update the content.css file in tinymce plugin and add a border for blockquote so its clearly marked… or maybe better yet, just copy the blockquote css from your sp theme css into the editor css…

obviously, we cannot do the latter because tinymce is a plugin and does not know what the css is for the sp theme you are using…

make sense?  come on back if I missed something…

Can I put the editor plugin css in my theme  styles folder like I have for the PM plugin?

Conrad

Mr Papa said
only have had a couple folks have issue with that quote button…  I mean the cursor is prepositioned to the entry point…  if you move it, you just have to go back to the right spot…

if you want to use bbcode, ie [ quote]afdadsf[ /quote] (without the extra space), you can… its supported… just type away…  but the button is tinymce and html…

If it bothers you, I would one of two things…  update the content.css file in tinymce plugin and add a border for blockquote so its clearly marked… or maybe better yet, just copy the blockquote css from your sp theme css into the editor css…

obviously, we cannot do the latter because tinymce is a plugin and does know what the css is for the sp theme you are using…

make sense?  come on back if I missed something…

Actually , quoting is fairly easy when I have to quote something only once. The problem arises when somebody has to multi quote i.e quote parts of a post, then it gets messy.

The option to update content.css seems an easy one but how exactly do I do it. I checked the file but couldn’t make much sense of it. Do I need to add something or edit something ?Would be great if you can give me the code because I ain’t good at coding stuff. Probably that’s the power of Open sourcing-One can run a website even when he doesn’t know much of coding.

Conrad asked if the CSS for this can be hived off safely and the answer is no – that is one of the problems. We have a ticket to deal with this in 5.1 so I would seriously wait for that if possible.

And the problem with the CSS really comes down to the fact that TinyMCE is third party code and as such means we can not apply our own id and class names to try and help makes things more obvious.

When we move it for 4.1 I will try and see if we can make any changes to help people. The main problem is that then we have to make updates every time we distribute a new version of tinyMCE. But I will see what we can do.

so to the change here is what I would do – and I agree with Andy if you make the change now, be prepared to make it again until the relocatble editor css mod is complete…

open up your sp theme and find your blockquote styling…  you will need it to be straight css and not php… if you are using one of our themes with php for overlays, you will need to get the real css from firefox/firebug or other…  In our shipped themes it will look something like:

#spMainContainer .spTopicPostSection .spPostSection .spPostContentSection .spPostContent blockquote {
    background: none repeat scroll 0 0 #F0F0F0;
    border: 1px solid #CCCCCC;
    border-radius: 5px 5px 5px 5px;
    color: #000000;
    font-size: 100%;
    font-weight: normal;
    line-height: 1.2em;
    margin: 0 0 1em;
    overflow: hidden;
    padding: 1em 1em 0;
}

remove all the IDs and class descriptors from it and just leave blockquote { on the first line… and then edit the:

wp-content/sp-resources/forum-plugins/tinymce-richtext/tinymce/themes/advanced/skins/o2k7/content.css file and paste it in there…  Now the blockquote will look in the editor like in your sp theme….

In theory anyways!   tried it in firebug but not actually modifying the code…