Coding Toolbar in HTML mode

[chrismm]

Title:
Coding Toolbar in HTML mode

Area:
Posting

Summary:
A toolbar in HTML mode that creates the code for various functions--links, lists, etc.--for people like me who only ever code on DW/LJ, but don't like working in Rich Text mode.

Description:
I would like the toolbar that's on the Rich Text mode to be available in HTML mode.

I prefer HTML mode because it's easier to make it do what I want, with fewer surprises. However, I don't code as much anymore, and I can never remember the specifics of even basic coding, so I end up either going back and forth between Rich Text and HTML (and cleaning up after Rich Text), or going outside to Semagic, getting it to make my code and then pasting it in the post window. I'm probably going to make a text file with code snippets I may need in it, but then it's not there if I'm working from another computer. It would just be handy to have.

Poll #2197 Coding Toolbar in HTML mode

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 37

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Should be implemented as-is.
5 (13.5%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
2 (5.4%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
26 (70.3%)

(I have no opinion)
3 (8.1%)

(Other: please comment)
1 (2.7%)

Comments

[rho]

Should be implemented provided I can turn it off.

[pauamma]

AKA: "I have a cheat sheet in a local text editor window (notepad, textedit, or whatever your favorite is) that I can copy and paste from". :-)

[rho]

Huh?

[pauamma]

A local text file with whichever HTML constructs you want, to copy and paste from?

[rho]

In my case? No. I just write the HTML I need from memory. I just figured that while it would annoy me, this might be a nice feature for others to have. So I'm in favour if I can turn it off, and opposed otherwise. And I'm still not sure what point you're trying to make.

[yvi]

People have that kind of thing?

[pauamma]

Probably fewer than could use it, but yes, some do. :-)

[melannen]

+1

I can write the HTML I use without needing a cheat, and I'd prefer the standard update page stay uncluttered.

Though I might not mind, maybe under the poll creator link, a pop-up that would give me a short list of markup that's allowed, that I could maybe copy-paste from.

[chrismm]

oooooh. A pop-up with a list of allowed markup to copy/paste from would be awesome. And it sounds like it would be useful to a broader range of users--both for people like me who know some code but don't have it memorized, and to people who code like mad, but don't know what code DW allows off the top of their head.

[havocthecat]

I can write the HTML I use without needing a cheat, and I'd prefer the standard update page stay uncluttered.

Yes! And if I really want to do something obscure, I google "HTML guide" and look it up, which is how I refreshed my memory on numbered lists after not having written the html for one in *mumble* years.

[triadruid]

Yup.

[chrismm]

:D I originally had "with option to turn it off" in the text, then read Rah's dealie about not having too many options, so I took it out. But yes--optional would be good.

[rho]

The way I'm picturing it, it would just remember the settings from last time you updated, so it wouldn't require an extra option.

[cesy]

Yes, this would work.

[ninetydegrees]

I like the HTML page because it's free of any clutter (well it'd be totally clutter-free if only Insert/Embed weren't there) so I'd like to be able to keep it that way should I wish to.
As for the toolbar I'd like it to allow me to quickly insert codes such as <cut text=""></cut> and nothing more. Otherwise HTML would just be a second RTE showing you the codes in the message box instead of a direct preview of what this'll look like.

[sally_maria]

If you are using Firefox, have you tried the LJ Hook extension? It's incredibly helpful for those of use who can't write HTML from memory all the time.

[chrismm]

I haven't--thanks for the tip!

[feathertail]

A lot of people seem to be suggesting that some way of getting an HTML reference would be good, if not the entire toolbar. Maybe there's some way we could accomplish that, as a separate suggestion? Not everyone uses Firefox.

(And as an aside, it occurs to me that these comment boxes have styling pretty much off-limits to anyone who doesn't know HTML ... )

[denise]

There is a bug open to add a link to HTML reference on the update page, yeah.

[chrismm]

That would be awesome, especially if it was A.) either a pop-up or an expansion, so it didn't go to a separate page, and B.) in a format that allowed cut/paste.

The toolbar is just what occurred to me first, being used to Semagic all these years and all.

[cesy]

I really really wouldn't want more clutter added unless I could turn it off and hide it. I like that the HTML mode doesn't have a load of extra buttons.