# Making it easier to color text

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/making-it-easier-to-color-text/271739
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** bbcode-color
**Created:** [July 15, 2023, 7:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/making-it-easier-to-color-text/271739 "2023-07-15T19:00:06Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author: ![Solysis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/solysis/32/247628_2.png) [@Solysis](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Solysis)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2023, 7:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/making-it-easier-to-color-text/271739/1 "2023-07-15T19:00:07Z")

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![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/e/6/7/e678a267de76b4feddb5a7cb402d0678f902a5c6.png)  
Its annoying always having to get the color command to color text. Could there be a shortcut for doing this in the upper bar, like there is for things like polls?

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### Author: ![twofoursixeight](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/twofoursixeight/32/574822_2.png) [@twofoursixeight](https://meta.discourse.org/u/twofoursixeight)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2023, 7:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/making-it-easier-to-color-text/271739/2 "2023-07-15T19:15:44Z")

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Hello. (I know you!)  
The forum you are in, Dark Gaming, has a BBCode color extension installed. However, I agree that it is annoying to type bbcode in manually, especially when dealing with colors.

**my concept:** there should be a dropdown menu for colors on forums running this plugin, a color selector. Like, this one in a seperate forum:

 ![IMG_2079](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/e/3/0/e30e6e9aaf30833ce127baec69f273a3b189a9d6.jpeg)

adding the #bbcode-color tag since the forum has that extension: [Discourse BBCode Color](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-bbcode-color/65363)

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### Author: ![Solysis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/solysis/32/247628_2.png) [@Solysis](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Solysis)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2023, 7:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/making-it-easier-to-color-text/271739/3 "2023-07-15T19:32:01Z")

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yes i agree, that would be nice

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### Author: ![merefield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/merefield/32/176214_2.png) [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2023, 8:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/making-it-easier-to-color-text/271739/4 "2023-07-15T20:00:41Z")

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Give this guy a nudge:

> [@BBcode color tags in a theme](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bbcode-color-tags-in-a-theme/211902/5):
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> Thats pretty cool. Thanks. I am thinking of simplifying this further by adding a new toolbar button which looks like a color block. Clicking on it will open a simple layer with preselected colors: [image] Clicking a color there will then perform the regular wrapWith composer method that adds the [wrap=colorme color=blue]Hi there![/wrap] around the selected text. Then, your code up there with decorateCookedElement() kicks in and renders it accordingly. That sounds like an intuitive approac…

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### Author: ![Solysis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/solysis/32/247628_2.png) [@Solysis](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Solysis)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2023, 12:19am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/making-it-easier-to-color-text/271739/5 "2023-07-16T00:19:31Z")

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ooh sounds cool

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### Author: ![denvergeeks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/denvergeeks/32/327671_2.png) [@denvergeeks](https://meta.discourse.org/u/denvergeeks)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2023, 3:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/making-it-easier-to-color-text/271739/6 "2023-09-01T15:37:52Z")

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You could try this Theme Component…

[https://github.com/merefield/discourse-tc-coloured-text](https://github.com/merefield/discourse-tc-coloured-text)