Post Quote Length Limit (vB4)
 

As some of you know, when someone quotes a post, sometimes they are long posts. This can make the post hard to read, and IMO, not look as good as it can.

Sure you could limit the characters of the quote one way or another, but this is not the best approach. Someone may actually want to see all the quoted text in the post.

So I have come up with the solution, of adding a scroll bar in the quote bubble. This way you can keep the post looking neat, with out loosing functionality. So here we go wit the tutorial.

Take for example this post, [OzzModz] Classifieds

Now if someone were to quote that, and reply something like, " Thanks for sharing Ozzy. " the post would look bad, because the amount of info in the quote would overwhelm the reply.

So what you can do is go to your ACP --> Styles & Templates --> Style Manager, then choose Edit Templates for your style.

Now in the scroll box find, CSS Templates, then double click on that, then find additional.css and double click on that.

Once inside that template, paste the following code at the very end of the template, below everything else:

Then click on the Save button. This will have to be done for each of your styles. :)

Now when someone quotes a post that is longer that 300px high, it will add a scroll bar inside the quote bubble. This allows anyone viewing the post, to be able to still see all the original quoted text, but without making the post longer than it needs to be. In the attached image, is this post quoted, [OzzModz] Classifieds but as you can see, it is much shorter.

Used, might help with less load as well. Did you get my pm

Yes I did, and I corrected it. :)

Happy to help, you should sleep you work too hard

I may have over celebrated the holiday today a little, but I swear it looks like this works retro for all prior existing posts!

Too much green beer? If so it might also make me think maybe this reduces page load, which of course it doesn't.:D

Right, I don't see it reducing page load, as all the same info is there. :)

I do sleep, and this edit is a result of taking a nap. :)

Modified and working perfectly! Thanks so much, Chris!

Nice idea @Ozzy47, such a simple concept. Good work! :)

Yes, it's a good idea.

I took it from BirdOPrey5 (http://www.qapla.com/mods/showthread...ike-XenForo-12).

Anyway, is there an easy way to have it more like it is on Xenforo? That at the end is text Show more (or something) and when you click on it, all of the text is shown? I think it would ask for a bit of javascript or something similar, not just simple CSS addition.

Well If I knew Joe had already did this, I would have pointed everyone there. :(

As far as the show more, I can look into it, but not sure when.

Great minds think alike. :up:

Now it is easier to find. :)

I too didn't knew till recently for his version, it was just a few days ago when I found it out.

If you could add show more option, maybe in your mod for quoting you already have... or somewhere else, as I think it would need a bit more coding.

Yeah if I was to add the Show More deal, I might just turn it into a product.

great article as usual,

Thanks, ozzy47

Hi ozzy!

This contribution truth is that it is very useful! Only in my forum 4.2.2 has not worked for me. Copy and paste the code that mencionastes in additional.css but not served at all. I spent some time trying until I could make out.

What I had to do is enter "ACP -> Styles & Templates -> Style Manager- templates- edit css" and open BBCODE.CSS, search ".bbcode_quote div.quote_container" and modify ADDING what you mention

default:

update

I have marked as excellent as I served besides modifying, I hope will be helpful to someone

is it possible to fix this for vb5? was really happy about that one and just notice it in the graveyard :(