Re: Forum Text Entry (Simplified HTML)
Posted by
GregChapman on
Feb 18, 2018; 8:21am
URL: https://support.nabble.com/Forum-Text-Entry-Simplified-HTML-tp7600037p7600041.html
I am not Nabble staff but am an experienced user and have followed this forum for about eight years.
Nabble is now in "maintenance mode" and is expected to be replaced by Blasma in due course so I doubt that your request will be followed up. Read more at:
http://greghelp.991552.n3.nabble.com/Nabble-and-SSL-https-td4012780.htmlIn the past others have made similar suggestions to you. You'll find topics and potential solutions for it by editing the NAML code to introduce an external editor, but from what I've read of those topics the results are not ideal. They include:
http://support.nabble.com/Images-being-stored-on-Froala-instead-of-my-site-tp7592421.htmlhttp://support.nabble.com/Foala-editor-implementation-questions-tp7592373.htmlI have found that most forum users have no reason for adding any formatting at all, other than inserting pictures and I always have to provide FAQs to help people out. e.g.
http://seahawk-forum.968426.n3.nabble.com/Inserting-Images-in-the-Forum-tp1599211.htmlOn one forum I maintain, designed to hold the online version of a print magazine, I did create some very specialised formatting for the various heading tags that Nabble allows. See the post at:
http://greghelp.991552.n3.nabble.com/Using-CSS-to-Change-the-Formating-of-Headings-td4012765.htmlYou are right that using a specialised external text editor designed for creating HTML code, and pasting in the results works very well. I use that technique myself on a blog I run using Nabble. However the point about that is while my posts often included photos with specially formatted borders and caption text, followers who commented never needed such formatting.
In short, I think you will find that 99.99% of users are more than happy with plain text input when they have the ability to add images and smilies. Unless you have a very special purpose forum which requires heavily formatted text then most users will not miss the extra facilities offered by a more advanced editor.
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