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1 Jul 2004Came across another neat Firefox extension: BBCode. BBCode adds a list of menu choices to the right-click context menu, allowing you to quickly add BBCode (explained in the phpBB BBCode guide) to your posts (actually, the BBCode context menu appears in all textual input fields).
One of the simplest of things it does is allow you to quickly bold, italicize, or format selected text. Just select “Bold” (or whatever formatting option you wish to use) from the context menu (right-click):
Bam! Your selected text is formatted:
Changing the color of the text also works as in most places, popping up a JavaScript dialog:
But what’s a real keeper, is what’s found under the “Clipboard” sub-menu. With this, you can copy a piece of text you want to quote, or a URL to an image/webpage, and then have it formatted as quoted text, or as an URL in BBCode. If you post in BBCode, you’ll know how much of a hassle this can sometimes grow to be.
With “http://blog.codefront.net/” in my clipboard, BBCode formats it nicely so that I don’t have to.
Excellent work by Jed Brown, who also recently wrote GMailCompose, which is another context menu extension that allows you to compose a reply in GMail when clicking on mailto: links.
27 Responses to Post in forums a lot? BBCode is for you
ubiquitous minghong - My Blogger
July 1st, 2004 at 4am
mailto: -> Gmail!
Thanks Cheah Chu Yeow! I found this useful Firefox extension, which adds a “GMail Compose” link to the context menu for mailto: links and text addresses, from his post about Firefox BBCode extension.
Thanks man! Believe it or not, my friend Kwan a…
John Smith
July 16th, 2004 at 1am
[color=red]nice[/color]
Margueritte
August 8th, 2004 at 11pm
exists in french?
Kropotkine
August 18th, 2004 at 7am
Oui ca existe en francais sur http://smilissimo.free.fr
Cheah Chu Yeow
July 1st, 2004 at 9am
Jed: Sure, feel free to grab them off the site. Looking forward to that GmailCompose left-click thingie too!
Thanks!
Elegyr
July 11th, 2004 at 1am
Very nice job…
There was no way to escape from using IE because of my over-posting in forums IPB/PhpBB…. From now on, as it handles the issue, I may get rid of IE for while :)…
One more thing would be nice… – I know, I’m asking a lot – some function that include smileys’ code and the [list][/list function as well.
This version is nice anyway. Thanks Jed !
Jed
July 1st, 2004 at 7am
Thanks for posting about BBCode, glad you like it.
Would you mind I stoll your screenshots for my extension list?
On another note, hopefully by tonight I’ll release a new version of GMailCompose that works with the standard left-clicking (optional, on by default).
-Jed
Jakob
July 1st, 2004 at 2am
Looks promising, I admin the forums of my guild so I’m guessing this might prove useful to me.
Bryce
August 31st, 2004 at 3pm
This is a wonderful hack. Though, one thing I’d love to see added is a feature to add your own bbcode’s. I’m on a few different forums in which admins have come up with their own hacks and are not published. Would be nice to be able to add them to the drop-down menu for easier use.
Also, how about adding a selection to add the IMG tag?
Other then that. BRAVO and great extension. I’ll be keeping an eye out for updates.
Bryce
August 31st, 2004 at 3pm
Whoops, didn’t see the options under clipboard. So please disreguard the comments about the image tag.
ting
September 5th, 2004 at 1pm
[color=green][size=14][b]thank you very much![/b][/size][/color]
anonymous
September 25th, 2004 at 1am
Im a newbie to Mozilla firefox. I do use forums quite often but I have been unable to use the extension in this one particular forum. Could it be something to do with the forum ? What could possibily cause this? if you can help then I might be able to notify the administrators there about it. thanks
Winter Lion
October 6th, 2004 at 2am
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Be happy knowing your real worth is beyond someones temporary outer beauty, because you will be that guy for all of your life.
[color=#000099]Even upon your death in around eighty years,, it’s the only thing you get to take with you. That actor is probably pinching pimples [/color]and worried about having a tight bum, today.
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[size=14]Oh, and Silent tell her this for me too,
“BBcode was a long time coming, what a totally genuis level idea, if I had money of any consequence, I would be throwing it Jim’s way , college [/color]must be a breeze for someone with ideas instead of complaints. Kudos!
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Winter Lion
October 6th, 2004 at 2am
What’s a blog, and is it spelled right, on the banner?
Makes me a bit nervous, second cousin of the Blob?
Winter Lion
October 6th, 2004 at 3am
Newbie,
Concerning comment #3352
Your admin may have that option turned off at that forum, if you notice,,this extension onlly shows when you are over a thread format pad, if it’s not recognized as one, no trigger for the extension. lol. Just a bluecollar man, that’s all I am!
Dont live in fear, anonymous, education is power.. Be what you are and surf in the certain knowledge that you are a Predator on the net, not food or entertainment for Maniac hackers or transvestite stalkers of young boys.
Walk tall, and never, I mean never let them see you sweat!
Winter-out
Nickolay
October 26th, 2004 at 4pm
Is it possible to insert tags in uppercase(like in Invision Power Board)?
Fdisk2k
November 25th, 2004 at 7am
[b]Testing[/b]
Kaj Kandler
December 13th, 2004 at 12pm
Thanks!
What a treat for firefox, BBCoders!
My wish for addition: Have a configurable fixed code insert function. I’d like to use a few shorthands for my signature and some greatings.
K
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Xeon3D
January 11th, 2005 at 2pm
Hi.
I’m the admin of a VBulletin Forum\Site and as much as I would like to use this extension there, it’s proven impossible to do.
I believe the extension doesn’t accept vbulletin forums, only phpbb ones. (I didn’t test on any others like invision.)
Would Jed please take a look at this? Thanks.
bibi
February 20th, 2005 at 12pm
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