Quick Reply Box Addons...

[|GMK|PlaTooN]

Well what's up.. I am wondering if it is possible to throw a background behind the test box you type in for both the quick reply box and normal reply or make thread.. I have seen this done on a iB3 board so I suspect it can be done on vBulletin?? It does look cool if you have a nice faded logo or something in the text box... Also on the quick reply box is there anyway to add some smilies to it so users can click smilies aswell?? Well holla back and I will check this thread often.

Catch you later,

PlaTooN :smoke:

[Mone']

this can be easily done using css

for the reply box look for this bit of code in the custom template
showthread_replybox

<textarea name="message" rows="7"  cols="$textareacols" wrap="virtual" tabindex="1"></textarea>

and chage it to :

<textarea name="message" rows="7"  cols="$textareacols" wrap="virtual" tabindex="1" style="background-image: url('http://www.yourdomain.com/images/background.gif')"></textarea>

were : 'http://www.yourdomain.com/images/background.gif'
is the url of the image that you want to show in the background


if you any problem let me know as i got working 100%

Mone'

[Mone']

and here is a screenshot :

[PET]

Do you know how to add BOLD, ITALIC, UNDerLINE buttons ?

[Boofo]

I tried to get it to work but it doesn't change anything. Any ideas on how to fix it?

Originally posted by Mone'
this can be easily done using css

for the reply box look for this bit of code in the custom template
showthread_replybox

<textarea name="message" rows="7"  cols="$textareacols" wrap="virtual" tabindex="1"></textarea>

and chage it to :

<textarea name="message" rows="7"  cols="$textareacols" wrap="virtual" tabindex="1" style="background-image: url('http://www.yourdomain.com/images/background.gif')"></textarea>

were : 'http://www.yourdomain.com/images/background.gif'
is the url of the image that you want to show in the background


if you any problem let me know as i got working 100%

Mone'

[PET]

It work for me. Have you check the url ? There must be the right one !

[Boofo]

Here is the URL to check it out on my site. It still looks the same as before.

Testing image in quick reply box

[Boofo]

Well, I got it working finally. Is there a way to make the background for the reply box just a color instead of an image and how would you change the color of the text for the message you write? And also, is there a way to make it so the background of the page shows through? I have a set background and would like to have the backrground stay put as the page moves in the box.

[Mone']

you can't have the quick reply box transparent and show the background image of your site !
you can use the above code to place an image.

to have the background and font set to a different color simply change

<textarea name="message" rows="7"  cols="$textareacols" wrap="virtual" tabindex="1"></textarea>

to

<textarea name="message" rows="7"  cols="$textareacols" wrap="virtual" tabindex="1" style="COLOR: white ;  BACKGROUND-COLOR: black;
"></textarea>

where white is the colour of the font
and black is the colour of the quick reply box



Mone'

[|GMK|PlaTooN]

Thanks for the help. It works great. But... is there a way to add smilies?? I tried including the smilie bit that is shown when you make a new thread or post.. I think its $smilies.. Well after adding that nothing showed any ideas on how to add smilies to the quick reply box?