BB Code Enhancements - Text Fade (Rainbow Faded Text) BBCode

This BB Code produces a rainbow like text fade effect. It uses Javascript to put multiple html font color tags between characters. There are two ways of doing this, the first method uses an external javascript file. In the second post you add the javascript to every page via the header template instead, this may be better if you expect the rainbow text to be called many times on a single page.

Demo: here.

Screen Shot:


Before You Start - See tyteen4a03's post (#18) for additional code changes that will allow you to rainbow color usernames and remove a limitation where you couldn't use double-quotes (").

1. Download the attached textfade.js.txt file, rename it to textfade.js, and upload it to your forums/clientscript folder.

2. Add a new BBCode

Title: Text Fade
BB Code Tag Name: fade
Replacement:

<script type="text/javascript" src="/forums/clientscript/textfade.js"></script> 
<script>fadeText("{param}");</script>

*Adjust the path to the textfade.js file as necessary. For example if your forum is installed in the web root (www.my-domain.com/) instead of (www.my-domain.com/forums/) then your path would simply be src="/clientscript/textfade.js"

Example: [fade]This code fades text in a rainbow.[/fade]
Description: This uses javascript to make a smooth rainbow effect in text.
Use Option: No
Button Image: (optional)
Remove Tag If Empty: Yes
All Disable Options: Yes except disable word wrapping: No

Limitations:

• You can not use other bbcode within this bbcode, but you can use it OUTSIDE of this bbcode to change the font style/color/type etc...
• You can't use smilies within this bbcode.
• You can't use the double quote (") within this bbcode.

This BB Code was tested on vb4 but should work on all current versions.

Please mark as installed if you use this.

[BirdOPrey5]

The [FADE] BB Code should always be the INNER most code:

[FADE]Example[/FADE]

If this doesn't work on 4.1.4's new editor there's not much else to do. I don't have 4.1.4 and doubt I ever will so I can't test it. If someone else with 4.1.4 wants to improve upon the code they are welcome to re-release an updated version.

[8thos]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

The [FADE] BB Code should always be the INNER most code:

[SIZE="3"][B][I][FADE]Example[/FADE][/I][/B][/SIZE]

If this doesn't work on 4.1.4's new editor there's not much else to do. I don't have 4.1.4 and doubt I ever will so I can't test it. If someone else with 4.1.4 wants to improve upon the code they are welcome to re-release an updated version.

Can you test it out on mine again?

[BirdOPrey5]

Sure, how do you want me to do that?

[8thos]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

Sure, how do you want me to do that?

I gotta mod you again my bad I forgot. Okay try now please!

[n00bl3t]

Would really love to see this working for 4.1.4