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]

Originally Posted by Octavius.

This BB code doesn't work anymore.

What version of vbulletin are you running?

[COL NIL SATIS]

Originally Posted by Octavius.

This BB code doesn't work anymore.

Still works flawlessly on 4.0.6 ...before posting random this doesnt work etc,you should always explain what issues etc you are having

[8thos]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

What version of vbulletin are you running?

4.06

Originally Posted by COL NIL SATIS

Still works flawlessly on 4.0.6 ...before posting random this doesnt work etc,you should always explain what issues etc you are having

It worked, then stopped working. I follow directions.

*checks again*

Wow look at that! It's working again! But now instead of bringing me back to my post, it brings me to a white page with just the text.

WTF...

[BirdOPrey5]

I really doubt the issue is being caused by this bb code but if you can give me a link to a thread on your forum I'll take a look and see if I can figure it out.

I have it running on a 4.0.6 test board myself and it's working fine.

[8thos]

K thanks man.

[koby411]

Whenever I install this and make a post with the bbcode.. it sends me to a white page with just the text. So I'm going to have to remove this till this gets fixed.

[BirdOPrey5]

I've seen this happen in 1 other forum, there is another mod interfering with it- unfortunately I was never able to track down which one. Someone else has released a combined rainbow bb code and rainbow text usernames, you might want to try that and see if you get better results.

[OldSchoolDSL]

Working and Installed

4.1 PL2

[RK KINGKONG]

thank you you sir nice one , installed on 4.1.1 yeah the update you helped me do . have a great day

[steveyos666]

4.1.4

I love this so much I want to just set it as the default text for everything in my life


The problem is it doesn't play nice with other codes, size and bold italics etc etc and even asterisks

If you play with the ordering of the tags it you can get it to work somewhat but not fully

Here's an example of me using WYSIWYG to have the text size 7, bold, italic and underlined, when I clicked post I got this:




Is it just me? Is it 4.1.4's new horrible editor?