Directly editing BBCode when posting/replying?

[wilburpan]

In the previous version of the forum software, there was a little switch icon in the upper left corner of the formatting bar. Clicking on that icon switched your editing mode from WYSIWYG to raw BBCode. Is there any way to activate that function again? Being able to directly see the BBCode was useful to me on occasion.

Thanks!

[tony b]

Whuuut? 

[wilburpan]

Here’s an example from a post I made on the KG forum.

I’m in the process of typing a reply. This is in WYSIWYG mode. (That stands for What You See Is What You Get.) This is like most word processors in that if you use boldface, italics, underlining, quoting, links, etc., you see the text being formatted as you type.

See the switch icon marked by the red circle in the upper left? That’s the icon I was talking about. If you click on it, the editor changes to this.

This is the raw BBCode of my reply. BBCode is a system used by forum software to mark formatting, quotes, links, and so on.

The KK forum used to have this functionality before the recent update. I’m hoping that this can be added back. I don’t always need to use it, but occasionally it comes in very handy.

 

[Syzygies]

BBCode (wikipedia)

The one reason I used raw BBCode mode before was to edit the "link text" for URLs, because the default link text used to be the URL itself, hideous and amateur in appearance. That has been fixed, with a second line available in the dialog box to provide the "link text".

While I abstractly mourn the loss of a toggle for raw BBCode mode, this is now easier!