Thanx from a lazy fuck

[Simon]

Could someone hit me up later on icq about what needs to be changed in the quicktags.js to make the tagging work automatically? (Or maybe it's worth posting here for others too.)

Working on new mantra:
"If it's not worth automating, it's not worth doing again."

[Useless]

Originally Posted by Simon

Could someone hit me up later on icq about what needs to be changed in the quicktags.js to make the tagging work automatically? (Or maybe it's worth posting here for others too.)

For sure. I'll tell you, but don't tell the rest of these clowns. Okay? Quicktags.js is used for writing/editing posts when you are NOT using that crappy Visual Rich Editor, but I'm unsure if it's used if you are using the VRE.

Open -
wp-includes/js/quicktags.js

Look for (pretty much at the end of the file)-

function edInsertLink(myField, i, defaultValue) {
	if (!defaultValue) {
		defaultValue = 'http://';
	}
	if (!edCheckOpenTags(i)) {
		var URL = prompt('Enter the URL' ,defaultValue);
		if (URL) {
			edButtons[i].tagStart = '<a href="' + URL + '">';
			edInsertTag(myField, i);
		}
	}
	else {
		edInsertTag(myField, i);
	}
}

Change -
edButtons[i].tagStart = '<a href="' + URL + '">';
to-
edButtons[i].tagStart = '<a href="' + URL + '" rel="tag">';

Coincidentally, this is also where you could add a mouseover into your anchors, if you wished, because that is the code that inserts the linking structure when you hit the "link" button.

[oast]

Originally Posted by Useless Warrior

function edInsertLink(myField, i, defaultValue) {
	if (!defaultValue) {
		defaultValue = 'http://';
	}
	if (!edCheckOpenTags(i)) {
		var URL = prompt('Enter the URL' ,defaultValue);
		if (URL) {
			edButtons[i].tagStart = '<a href="' + URL + '">';
			edInsertTag(myField, i);
		}
	}
	else {
		edInsertTag(myField, i);
	}
}

Change -
edButtons[i].tagStart = '<a href="' + URL + '">';
to-
edButtons[i].tagStart = '<a href="' + URL + '" rel="tag">';

If, like me, you use different 'rels' for different types of link, you could prompt for the rel to use:

function edInsertLink(myField, i, defaultValue) {
	if (!defaultValue) {
		defaultValue = 'http://';
	}
	if (!edCheckOpenTags(i)) {
		var URL = prompt('Enter the URL' ,defaultValue);
		var REL = prompt('Enter the rel' ,'external');
		if (URL) {
			edButtons[i].tagStart = '<a href="' + URL + '" rel="' + REL + '">';
			edInsertTag(myField, i);
		}
	}
	else {
		edInsertTag(myField, i);
	}
}

Substitute 'external' for the rel you use most often.