Tech Note: A Comment Markup Plugin

Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 3:20:27 pm PDT

In our comment entry form, I’m trying out a new way of inserting the HTML tags for bold, italics, etc., based on a very nice plugin for the jQuery Javascript library titled markItUp. This plugin has several improvements over the code I was using, and is more cross-browser compatible, so why reinvent the wheel? It was easy to customize the settings and install (the actual code to activate it is one short line), and seems to have no conflicts with anything else I’m currently using.

The only visible change (for now) is that the row of formatting icons shows up on the top left of the comment entry box, instead of the top right. But this little plugin has some nice extended capabilities I plan to explore.