It's too dang hard to monkify my code before I post, so I built a system that I'd like to see here so every one can benifit from the time savings.

I built a small client side, javascript engine that will work on 3.0 browsers and up. It finds the special characters and converts them to the HTML Elements they deserve to be.

I know what you're thinking, 'I don't want my whole post to be Monkified, just the code and certain smiley faces.".

Taken care of my friends, just put the tags <monkify>and</monkify> around any text that you want 'interpreted'. Pretty neat huh?

I went with JavaScript becuase I figured the less trips to the server the better, especialy for just formating the message. And it's ease to add a new button to the posting sections. Here's a demo: 

    <FORM>
      <TEXTAREA name='node_doctext' cols=50 rows=15>
I like to smile... <tt><monkify>;-></monkify>
<br>
Here's some code
<pre><monkify>
my $value = [ qw/hey there/ ];
print $value->[1];
</monkify></pre>
</TEXTAREA>
      <P>
      <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
        <!-- // Activate cloak
          function monkify(node_doctext) {
            var monkified   = '';
            var can_monkify = false;
            for ( i = 0; i < node_doctext.value.length; i++ ) {
              if ( node_doctext.value.substring( i, i+9 ) == '<monkify
+>' ) {
                can_monkify = true;
                i += 9;
              } else if ( node_doctext.value.substring( i, i+10 ) == '
+</monkify>' ) {
                can_monkify = false;
                i += 10;
              }
              if ( can_monkify ) {
                if ( node_doctext.value.charAt( i ) == '[' ) {
                  monkified += '&#091;';
                } else if ( node_doctext.value.charAt( i ) == ']' ) {
                  monkified += '&#093;';
                } else if ( node_doctext.value.charAt( i ) == '<' ) {
                  monkified += '&lt;';
                } else if ( node_doctext.value.charAt( i ) == '>' ) {
                  monkified += '&gt;';
                } else {
                  monkified += node_doctext.value.charAt( i );
                }
              } else {
                monkified += node_doctext.value.charAt( i );
              }
            }
            node_doctext.value = monkified;
          } // monkify()
        // Deactivate cloak -->
      </SCRIPT>
      <INPUT Type=Button VALUE="Monkify" OnClick="monkify(this.form.no
+de_doctext);return true;">
    </FORM>

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And if vroom doesn't add it, you can take it and benifit if you like. 
--
Casey

In reply to Monkifying posts is too rough (solution, not rant :) by cwest

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