Making it easier to color text

[Solysis]

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?

[twofoursixeight]

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:

adding the bbcode-color tag since the forum has that extension: Discourse BBCode Color

[Solysis]

yes i agree, that would be nice

[merefield (Robert)]

Give this guy a nudge:

BBcode color tags in a theme

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…

[Solysis]

ooh sounds cool

[denvergeeks]

You could try this Theme Component…

https://github.com/merefield/discourse-tc-coloured-text