I hate the complicated way of “Italicizing” and “Bolding” my comments on blogs. I have to manually surround the text with “<em></em>” and “<strong></strong>” tags. It breaks my flow of thought and wastes my time.
Being a very lazy person, I decided to find an easier way. My final solution works on Firefox and Google Chrome (sorry IE – you suck). This is how I implemented it – and it just takes a few clicks!
This is my URL that’s referred to in the video: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/81551.
Watch this in full screen and in HD if you can – it’s much clearer.
Update: Steps are different for Firefox and Google chrome. In the video, Google chrome is shown first, and then starting at 1:15, the steps are shown for Firefox.
After this, here are the shortcuts which will work in any textarea in Firefox and Google chrome.
Ctrl+B surrounds selected text with <strong></strong>
Ctrl+I surrounds selected text with <em></em>
Ctrl+Shift+M surrounds selected text with <a href=””></a> (cursor will be placed within the quotation marks)
Ctrl+U surrounds selected text with <u></u>
Ctrl+S surrounds selected text with <s></s>
Ctrl+P surrounds selected text with <p></p>
Alt+C counts the words and characters in selection. If nothing selected, it counts all the words in the box
Ctrl+2 surrounds selected text with <h2></h2>
Hope you found this as useful as I do. No more manual typing!
okay will try on chrome too…
Thanks!
You’ve a very, very persuasive voice. :)
I liked listening to your voice. Actually, I tend to be very curious of people I interact with so much online, so further greater the reason I loved listening to your voice.
Thanks for the tip! I’ll try it out, though actually I’m don’t quite like the idea of having to select and highlight text.
Actually, I was thinking of the one blog post that you had posted as a video. Can I have the link, please? Thanks!
Sorry, for the ‘off-topic’ comment. :)
In reply to Ketan
Ah yes – the video post. Here it is.
Glad you like my voice :) . Incidentally if you don’t like to select and highlight stuff, you can just press say “Ctrl + I” and the opening and closing tags will automatically appear with the cursor placed within them for you to write. You might find that easier.
It’s working! Thanks, again! :)
And I see the script was ‘made’ by you? Congratulations!
I hope, this is not an embarrassing question to ask – how much was your IQ the last time (or if ever) you got it tested? :)
In reply to Ketan
Yeah – I picked up someone else’s code and modified it to work with Google Chrome. Software’s like that. You almost always build upon what another person has done. The guy whose code I modified had taken components from another person!
I got my IQ tested a long time ago in College – 142 if I remember correctly. The test said it was enough to do a Ph.d so that was nice :)
And yes, it’s lot more convenient than I’d thought.
Hello, I am a fulltime online student looking for an expansion exactly like this, but it doesn’t work on my school discussion board. I have to post atleast 8 discussions every week of varying length requirements. Hand counting or copy and pasting is not feasible. I tried loading the wordcount expansion that you made but it doesn’t work either. No one else seems to find this important so there aren’t any other options for extension that count words that I can find. Please help, If you can.
In reply to Katie
Hi Katie,
Could you let me have the URL of your discussion board? I’ll take a look at what could be wrong.
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Thanks Lot man
just testing, sorry
Hey Google has this new rule where they don’t allow people to download extensions unless they’re in the Chrome Web Store, but I can’t find this in there, I guess you have to add it first.
This is the message it gives to developers (you) Developers: If you currently host an extension on your website, consider uploading it to the Chrome Web Store. Visit the Google Developers website to see more information on uploading items to the Chrome Web Store and use inline install so users can install your extension without leaving your site.