WYSIWYG editor?

Astralis Lux

I see the forum uses a markdown, which is really old-school. Does nodebb also provide the option of a WYSIWYG editor?

jarey

When composing, on the right you have a pre-visualization section, where you actually see the final result of your post (images, emojis, and all the effects of applied plugins are shown) so you can see the post as it will be displayed once submitted.

Astralis Lux

So the answer is no. I find that typing in one side while viewing another side not to be very user-friendly and very clunky.

jarey

I don't know why you say that, for me the preview is 100% WYSIWYG. In fact, what you see there, is what you actually get...

Astralis Lux

See my edit above... most forum software offer several options for editors but I would expect a real WYSIWYG editor for a next generation forum.

This is the number one request from my current forum members. Without a real WYSIWYG editor, I cannot use or recommend nodeBB.

nockgeneer

I agree, the current reply form looks really clunky and breaks the vertical reading line. Why not use something like WYSIHTML? (http://wysihtml.com/)

a_5mith

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Astralis Lux

A paid WYSIWYG editor? What year is it?

hek

Who wants weird HTML that these WYSIWYG editors spews out in their backend storage? What happens to the plugins? Should they parse the gibberish?

PitaJ

(hallojs.org)

Someone should make a plugin with this.

a_5mith

@Astralis-Lux said:

A paid WYSIWYG editor? What year is it?

Yeah heaven forbid someone wants to get paid for their time and effort...

ludam

@a_5mith said:

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Amazing!

KingCat

@Astralis-Lux said:

See my edit above... most forum software offer several options for editors but I would expect a real WYSIWYG editor for a next generation forum.

This is the number one request from my current forum members. Without a real WYSIWYG editor, I cannot use or recommend nodeBB.

You do realize that WYSIWYG stays for What you see is what you get, right? So the system in use currently by nodebb is indeed WYSIWYG. You type on one side, and the render is on the other. Literally WYSIWYG. If you're talking about an HTML based editor instead of bbcode or markdown that's a whole different thing. You need to get your terminology right so we know what you're asking for.

psychobunny

I'll go out on a limb and say I'm not a huge fan of markdown. I think the composer should really be like gmail etc with rich text. Leave the markdown to the coders IMO.

There, I said it drops mic

(Okay without being too controversial here, yes you can accomplish the above with a plugin and no, we're probably not changing the default anytime soon :p)

teh_g

@psychobunny said:

I'll go out on a limb and say I'm not a huge fan of markdown. I think the composer should really be like gmail etc with rich text. Leave the markdown to the coders IMO.

There, I said it drops mic

(Okay without being too controversial here, yes you can accomplish the above with a plugin and no, we're probably not changing the default anytime soon :p)

I agree to an extent. Markdown is very powerful if you know it, but it can be very different for people who have never used it.

I think just adding more options to the editor would be handy. Sort of like what some of the php forums offer.

KingCat

There are buttons on the top of the editor to handle most of the markdown commands with the exception of headers so you don't need to memorize all the syntax.

There's also a plugin called buttons galore that adds even more features.

PitaJ

There are WYSIWYG editors that output markdown. I will eventually make a plugin which replaces the editor with one of those.

? Offline

I don't know why you say that, for me the preview is 100% WYSIWYG. In fact, what you see there, is what you actually get...So the system in use currently by nodebb is indeed WYSIWYG

Nicolas

NodeJS and Markdown were 2 most important reasons, why I have selected NodeBB

adriangb

@Astralis-Lux did you ever find something? Most of my users are non-techs, and have expressed confusion over the editor (they expect it to act like most software, GMail, Word, Facebook, etc.). And there's no chance in hell they're going to use markdown, and probably not even copy pasting embed code from YouTube and such. All I need is basic options (font size, color, bold and bullets).