So I have found a very helpful Firefox addon to help me format text in BBCODE.

So I have found a very helpful Firefox addon to help me format text in BBCODE. "What!", you say, "why would you need that??!!" Some social media platforms, like Friendica, use BBCODE to format their text. Not just things like bold, italic and overscore such as G+, but headings, links, videos et cetera. It reminds me of my old LIVEJOURNAL days and I like that.

Anyway, EDIT (at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/edit/) adds a sidebar for extra formatting and search and replace, which should work on any plaintext text field. Select the text and press the button. And if you need more BBCODES, you can add lots of custom ones which are then accessed by selecting the Custom _ _ _ _ _ which shows a drop-up list (as per the 2nd image below). Those custom codes can also be exported and import to/from a text file.

Very nice. My Friendica posts are going to be more formatted from now on.
#Firefox #Addon #Edit