Introducing our new composer, making writing on Discourse easier than ever

[NateDhaliwal]

To colour text, see these plugin/TCs:

Discourse Coloured Text

“BBCode-lite” without the need to install a plugin … Adds a simple control (palette icon) to the Composer to facilitate colouring of the foreground and background of text [image] Select a word or text Hit the palette control It will be wrapped like so: [wrap=color color=# bgcolor=#]word[/wrap] Replace the #s with html-compatible colour names, e.g. “red”, “grey” … experiment. NB Same caveats apply as to BBCode: can be used to hide text. Credits Uses @j.jaffeux’s Generic bbco…

Discourse BBCode Color

Summary Discourse BBCode Color adds BBCode colors to the post formatting options. Repository Link https://github.com/discourse/discourse-bbcode-color Install Guide How to install plugins in Discourse The Discourse BBCode Color plugin enhances the Markdown composer [1] with support for the BBCode [color] syntax and text background colors. Features [image] Set colors inline with: [color=#aaa]text[/color] [color=red]text[/color] …

Discourse BBCode

Summary Discourse BBCode adds the ability to use BBCode to format posts. Hosted by us? This plugin is available on our Enterprise plans Self-host Install Install plugins on a self-hosted site Repository Link https://github.com/discourse/discourse-bbcode The Discourse BBCode plugin enhances the Markdown composer [1] with support for the BBCode syntax beyond what is included by default (i.e. [i], [b], [s], [u], […

It’s not a default in Discourse.