Feature #8424
closed
Select Forum Text Before Quoting
Added by Luke Waltzer almost 7 years ago.
Updated almost 7 years ago.
Category name:
Group Forums
Description
i'm finding I'm quoting forum posts a lot and then manually recreating the blockquotes so only the segments of the op I want to reference are visible... would be cool if you could select text in a forum post and them only quote that text. would appear along with the header linking author and original post...
- Assignee set to Raymond Hoh
Yeah, I've done the same thing. Ray, any sense of how hard this would be? (My guess is that it won't be overly hard, but will totally different from the current quote mechanism, since it'll require getting the selection via JS and sending it when clicking Quote. On the bright side, we could potentially move the whole process into the browser this way.)
- Status changed from New to Assigned
- Target version set to 1.12
The hard part would be traversing through the DOM to get the post ID and author name for the selection.
Not sure how hard that will be. Going to move this to the next milestone for now. If this is easy, will move back to v1.11.x.
Oh right. I wonder if we can add `data-` attributes for those things so that no traversing is necessary.
Oh right. I wonder if we can add `data-` attributes for those things so that no traversing is necessary.
Not sure if that is possible.
The way I see it is, we will continue to use the existing Quote button.
If there is a selection within the forum post DIV when you click on the Quote button, we'll use the quoted text. If there isn't a selection, we will use the entire post content as it is currently.
- Status changed from Assigned to Staged for Production Release
- Target version changed from 1.12 to 1.11.8
Awesome-- think this will be great addition.
- Status changed from Staged for Production Release to Resolved
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