Post in forums a lot? BBCode is for you

Came 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):

Screenshot of BBCode bold option


Bam! Your selected text is formatted:

Screenshot of BBCode after using bold option


Changing the color of the text also works as in most places, popping up a JavaScript dialog:

Screenshot of BBCode after using color option


Screenshot of BBCode during use of color option


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.

Screenshot of BBCode make selection URL option


With “http://blog.codefront.net/” in my clipboard, BBCode formats it nicely so that I don’t have to.

Screenshot of BBCode make selection URL result


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.

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Jakob's Gravatar

Looks promising, I admin the forums of my guild so I’m guessing this might prove useful to me.

Posted by: Jakob on July 1, 2004 2am

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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…

Posted by: ubiquitous minghong - My Blogger on July 1, 2004 4am

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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

Posted by: Jed on July 1, 2004 7am

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Jed: Sure, feel free to grab them off the site. Looking forward to that GmailCompose left-click thingie too!

Thanks!

Posted by: Cheah Chu Yeow on July 1, 2004 9am

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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 !

Posted by: Elegyr on July 11, 2004 1am

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[color=red]nice[/color]

Posted by: John Smith on July 16, 2004 1am

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exists in french?

Posted by: Margueritte on August 8, 2004 11pm

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Oui ca existe en francais sur http://smilissimo.free.fr

Posted by: Kropotkine on August 18, 2004 7am

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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.

Posted by: Bryce on August 31, 2004 3pm

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Whoops, didn’t see the options under clipboard. So please disreguard the comments about the image tag.

Posted by: Bryce on August 31, 2004 3pm

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ting's Gravatar

[color=green][size=14][b]thank you very much![/b][/size][/color]

Posted by: ting on September 5, 2004 1pm

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anonymous's Gravatar

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

Posted by: anonymous on September 25, 2004 1am

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Posted by: Winter Lion on October 6, 2004 2am

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What’s a blog, and is it spelled right, on the banner?
Makes me a bit nervous, second cousin of the Blob?

Posted by: Winter Lion on October 6, 2004 2am

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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

Posted by: Winter Lion on October 6, 2004 3am

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Nickolay's Gravatar

Is it possible to insert tags in uppercase(like in Invision Power Board)?

Posted by: Nickolay on October 26, 2004 4pm

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[b]Testing[/b]

Posted by: Fdisk2k on November 25, 2004 7am

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Kaj Kandler's Gravatar

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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Posted by: Kaj Kandler on December 13, 2004 12pm

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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.

Posted by: Xeon3D on January 11, 2005 2pm

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Ginger's Gravatar

Came accross this today in a chat room…

Adblock, gmail, and bbcode are pretty essential extensions if you forum, surf or use gmail.
I dont have the bbcode thing
I just type them
blasphemy, I know
it lets you right click and highlight to add in the bbcode, though its mostly only useful when you’re dropping copied links into it
eh, you know how easy it is to get me to learn new things, or change
http://blog.codefront.net/archives/2004/07/01/post-in-forums-a-lot-bbcode-is-for-you
oh ok ty Dyr
(later)
Dyrwen thanks again for this link
I guess I will get BB code

Posted by: Ginger on March 15, 2005 11pm

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check out [url=http://forum.maxthon.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=17170]B-Plugin for Maxthon[/url]. It is… Much. More. Powerful, extendable (based on javascript) and easy-to-use.

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