Convert buttons to text - multiquote problem

[Spinball]

Hello,
I don't think I will have a problem replacing buttons with links which are stuled to look like buttons, but I am struggling with the Multiquote button.
This threadhttps://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?p=1604783#post1604783
offers an answer which doesn't work.
<a href="$post[replylink]" rel="nofollow" onclick="return false"><span style="color:<if condition="$show['multiquote_selected']">green<else />red</if>;" id="mq_$post[postid]">$vbphrase[multi_quote_this_message]"</span></a>
The javascript - wherever it is - doesn't want to work on the <span.

Any help appreciated.
Thanks

[Spinball]

Ok I've examined the Javascript and established that it's the function which uses the img tag content which won't work on a span.
I'm surprised there isn't a resource on here which has already been created to help people wanting to do this.
Also somewhat disappointed (though not entirely surprised) at the lack of response to my thread.

[BirdOPrey5]

I could respond but I wouldn't have anything of value to add- JavaScript isn't one of my strong points. ;)

[Spinball]

I compromised and used buttons in the end.
Is there a decent forum out there where I could get a better response to this or is vBulletin dead?

[BirdOPrey5]

I compromised and used buttons in the end.
Is there a decent forum out there where I could get a better response to this or is vBulletin dead?

vBulletin's not dead... The obvious answer is if you don't get a lot of responses what you're asking is either:

1) A lot harder to do than you think it is
and/or
2) No one else really thinks it's worth the effort

I'd say this is probably a combination of both- is it really that big a deal to change multi-quote to text? A small 4 color gif file will load just as fast even on a mobile browser and work just fine as is- probably look better too.

That combined with the fact good javascript programmers are much more rare on this site than good php programmers probably has a lot to do with it.

[BirdOPrey5]

I got it working. :)

Guess I picked up more about javascript than I though.

Open your vbulletin_multi_quote.js file

find:

(D,"img")

replace with:
(D,"span")

find:
{A.src=A.src.replace(/\/multiquote_off\.([a-zA-Z0-9]+)$/,"/multiquote_on.$1")}

replace with:
{A.textContent = "MultiQuote On";A.style.color = "green";}

find:
{A.src=A.src.replace(/\/multiquote_on\.([a-zA-Z0-9]+)$/,"/multiquote_off.$1")}

replace with:
{A.textContent= "MultiQuote Off";A.style.color = "red";}


I used the replacement instead of what you put in your first post:
<a href="$post[replylink]" rel="nofollow" onclick="return false"><span style="color:red;" id="mq_$post[postid]">$vbphrase[multi_quote_this_message]</span></a>

[Motasm]

thank you