Hack: Better text formatting hints
Time for another Greasemonkey hack.
This one replaces the existing text formatting hint you get when making comments (the text that pops out when you click on the “Show text formatting help:” link below the comment box). Instead of the rather small bit of help you get webgrrl’s rather handy text formatting cheat sheet.
See over here for more details.
Faizan Qureshi
You’re on roll!
Bahoke
Useful!!
webgrrl
ive updated in the posts/description, so that this info is available to all (incase they dont see it in the comments..) BIG THANK YOU
Dave Pearson
Thanks all. And thanks webgrrl for spreading the info a little further. Much appreciated.
pentangled
Dave – you’re a star! Thank you so much for doing this! :o)
Dave Pearson
My pleasure (although the main thanks go to webgrrl for putting the cheatsheet together in the first place).
Brian Puhl IPA
This thing works pretty good, though its a little big, I was hoping for something more compressed so that you don’t have to scroll down, maybe an idea for the future? Thanks for creating this! Of course I’ve also already sent my thanks to webgrrl!
Dave Pearson
Feel free to create a more compressed image that contains the information you find useful and to then modify the script to taste.
webgrrl
hey dave, noticed today that the script not working..
Dave Pearson
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Thanks. I’ll have a look into this in the next few hours.
I know that, due to some recent changes (especially the “reply” type comments that were recently added to the site), the image doesn’t appear everywhere that “Show text formatting help” appears (because there’s now more than once instance of that per page) so perhaps that’s what you’re seeing? I’ve been meaning to fix for that for a while now.
I’ll let you know what I find.
Dave Pearson
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I’ve just checked and the script is still working but, like I say above, the new “reply” facility has thrown it out a little bit so you won’t always see the graphic hint.
When I get a moment I’ll dive into the script and see if I can make it work better with the new layout of the site.
Dave Pearson
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Okay, that seems to have been pretty easy to fix. v0.2 is now available for download.
Give it a go and let me know how it looks to you.
And thanks once again for reporting this. Much appreciated.
Steven Sandner
awesome! thanks so much!!!
NicoleBPhotos
Thanks :)!
(Hope it works with the new FF version – will check it out asap :) )
NicoleBPhotos
works :)!
Thanks again!
Dave Pearson
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Good to hear it. Glad you like it.