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Note: The seperate Quicktags toolbar is not supported. Please use the full toolbox script, or hack it any way you like. The remainder of this post remains for posterity only.

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This was easier than I thought.  Alex King has done most of the work by having the Quicktags info already in a JavaScript file. I just grabbed my copy of the file (from /wp-admin/quicktags.js) and tweaked it.  To upload to the Blogsome server I had to call it quicktags.jpg, but that is allowed, since you tell the browser explicitly that it is a text/javascript file. So, you can get my quicktags.js file (Right-click and download it!), and upload it to your server, and use the following code in your comments.html. Where you want the toolbar to appear, insert this:

    <script src="/images/quicktags.jpg" type="text/javascript"></script> 
    <script type="text/javascript">edToolbar();</script> 

After the <textarea>, insert the following code:

    <script type="text/javascript"> 
        <!-- edCanvas = document.getElementById('comment'); //--> 
    </script>

Note: you may need to chage the argument of getElementById to whatever your textarea id is. I’ve also tweaked the JavaScript file so it includes abbr, acronym and strike tags, and doesn’t include the tags that aren’t valid for comments.  And I’ve added a button for inserting < and >, but I’m not totally happy with this.  If anyone wants to edit it so it works better (try it out to see what I mean), then feel free.

I’ve also created another version that uses links instead of buttons (since Camino doesn’t render buttons with style, only as Mac-buttons), but it’s not quite as nice: the labels don’t update. Still, if anyone wants to play around with it, you can get it here. Remember to right-click and download it, it’s not really an image!

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