How to substitute the smileys?

[molinaro]

Hi. Is there a way I can substitute the default images of the Smileys provided by Nabble.com? Perhaps a script on my website where my forum is embedded (so when viewed on Nabble.com it's still with the default smileys). I would like to replace the images with my own smileys pack.

If the default smileys provided by Nabble.com are made with CSS, so it can be easily substituted, but since they aren't I can try and search for a javascript or something like that to put on the template of my website. If you guys known another solution, I'm very grateful. Sorry, but the reason is that I found the default smileys very ugly and retro.

Thanks for any help. If there's no way to do such thing, I would like then to suggest a new feature: the default smileys made with CSS, for the total customization by the users.

Forgive my poor English, and keep up the great service! ^__^

[molinaro]

Can I insert a javascript on my Nabble forum to substitute the smileys? I know that it can sound futile, but I pretend to use my forum as a community for a webcomic, and my public is very exigent. I really would like to use other smileys instead of the default ones - if I can do this.

Thank you.

[Will <Nabble>]

Thanks for your suggestion. We don't have this option. But I'll have our programmer look into this and see if it's easy to do. If it's not easy to do, there will have to be more users asking for it before we do it.

[molinaro]

Nice! Thank you very much for the reply. If is there something I can do to help you with this, you can count on me - I'm liking this service a lot.

In my humble opinion, it's easy to do. Basically you need to replace the IMG tag by a DIV tag, and add the style for the background images of the DIVs in the Customize The Appearence page. Then we users will can substitute the images of every smiley as wished, change their sizes and even hide the ones we don't want/like (some forum owners can only permit the use of one or another smiley, for example). It would be great!

Thanks again.  *fingers crossed*

[molinaro]

Hi. Any updates on customizable smileys? I see other users having the same request in this thread. Is there any prevision on when this feature will be available?

In my humble opinion the default smileys set is very ugly, I would like so much to change them... ^^; It could be done easily if you just put a simple CSS class or id in each smiley image, let's say, with their respective names. It's so simple.

Well, if there's no prevision about it, I would like to start a petition topic about this question. I would like to how many signatures should I collect for you to make this a priority in future releases. :-)

Thank you for this great service

[Hugo <Nabble>]

Hi Rod Molinaro,

We will add this feature in the future. For now, you can use pure CSS to replace the icons and use your custom images. Here is a simple example on how to do this:

html>body img[src='/images/icon_post_message.png'] {
  width: 0; height: 0; padding-top: 16px; padding-left: 16px;
  background: url('...your-image-url-goes-here...') no-repeat -112px 0;
}

Take a look at this forum and see the final work:
http://n2.nabble.com/SUSE-Studio-Users-f1598176.html

It is important to remember that we may change our icons without further notice. So your custom CSS would have to be fixed whenever we change icon names and files.

Regards,
Hugo Teixeira
Nabble.com