Comments on: Add a preview to your WordPress comment box

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:28:04 +0000

I’m not a big fan of the idea of formatting comments. But it wouldn’t be that tough to put a TinyMCE or fckEditor into the text box.

By: RickHap

RickHap — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 02:53:52 +0000

Very nice work on the comment preview.

Have you found a good toolbar/button set to place above the textarea which provide format tags for the comment entry? The buttons above the message box in the Wordpress Forums would be nice to add.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 18:28:30 +0000

And a slight bug just got fixed. When I copied the JavaScript over from my editor to here I forgot to include the /g at the end of the regex. So what was happening is only the first line break was being converted to a
. It’s fixed now.

One other thing to be careful of is to make sure that when you copy and paste the code it’s not changing the single quotes to smart quotes. If you get a JavaScript error on illegal characters that’s what’s happening.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 14:36:48 +0000

I found a downside. Now that I know that it’s possible, and easy, to add a comment preview it’s almost annoying on sites that don’t offer it. The way I write I tend to go back and reread everything several times (thank you Ms. Browne) and do some touching up. That’s really hard to do in a little textarea box.

Of course that’s a pretty minor rant :)

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 17:25:48 +0000

I was more surprised that I hadn’t seen anybody doing that before, especially as much time as I spend on blogs.

And I thought about looking for a plugin that would do it since I’m sure there’s probably others than the one you linked to, but it seemed like such an easy little piece of Javascript that it wasn’t worth spending too much time looking. It was about a 5 minute write and took another 5 to put it on 2 of my blogs. Heck, it took longer to write this post than it did to write the code.

By: Lodewijkvdb

Lodewijkvdb — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 15:33:21 +0000

Wow, you made it yourself! I have to be frank, I used a ready made plugin for Wordpress to get the live comment preview. You can find it here: Live Comment Preview Thanks for the link.