I know I’ve requested this before, but can’t for the life of me find the post. I’d love to see some additional formatting within the expressionengine.com/forum’s. Primarily it’d be great to be able to write lists and inline code blocks, meaning <ul />, <ol /> and <code />.
Do you mean you want it in our forums? Discussion Forum 2.0 added the feature of using any formatting plugin you desire for each forum, so you can use Markdown, for instance.
Just as a note, you can do code by using [ code ] You can also choose to allow all HTML, which would allow for lists.
I also just did a test by allowing Textile with “Safe HTML” and it produced a list perfectly, both ordered and unordered. =) You can see my tests here.
@Derek Jones - Yup, i was hoping for it in these forums. In any format really, XHTML, Textile or Markdown. It’d be nice to be able to visually mark up comments a bit better. Good to know it’s available in the module, maybe we’ll see it in these forums some day, even if just a small subset of the additional tags?
@Lisa Wess - The key here is inline code blocks, using the <code /> tag. Using the BBCode method of [code /] always create a block level element (like a <pre /> tag would).
Aha, Mark. I understand. =) You can style the .codeblock and code element however you want, to make it inline… That would take some consideration, though. =)
Do you mean you want it in our forums? Discussion Forum 2.0 added the feature of using any formatting plugin you desire for each forum, so you can use Markdown, for instance.
Were exactly can you get and insatll such a plugin? I’ve looked through the forum settings and I can’t find anything beyond the XHMTL (full, safe, or none) options.
I’ve attempted to allow safe and all HTML, but I still can’t build an unordered list.
Any of the formatting plugins you have installed will show up in the “Text Formatting in Posts” options list, Sean. Markdown, and some of the other popular ones, can be found in our Add-On Library.
Thanks for taking the time to point out what I should have already tried, Derek! I installed the Markdown plugin and it was available in the formatting options… now, however, I’ve notice that it doesn’t matter what formatting option I choose for the forums, the formatting never changes.
I’ve attempted to edit posts and create new ones to see the new formatting in effect, but no luck (it looks like it’s always using the default Xhtml). Is there a setting somewhere I’m missing?
Are you changing the preference for the individual forum(s) you want to apply that too, or just the general preferences that are used when creating new forums?
Ahh… well, it seems I’m very good at missing the obvious! I was indeed only changing the general preferences. I updated the formatting for the individual forums and now I’m golden!
Thanks for your help, Derek. Very much appreciated!
