Formatting Text in Messages

kwzvanilla

With Messages we can communicate with users. Is there any way to format the text in the Messages? For example, we would like to have two lines in the Message separated by one or more blank lines, but line feeds seem to be ignored and the Message is always one line after the other with no blank lines between.

Is there a way to add a hyperlink the Message? Maybe bold or underline or other html formatting?

We did not see anyway to do this as it looks like only ascii text is used.

(By Messages we don't mean the body of discussions. Rather we mean the text we can place at the top or sides of the form to make announcements to users and setup through the backend Dashboard.)

peregrine

use standard html tags.

like <p> or < /br> for new line

<b> bold < /b>

http://www.w3schools.com/html/

UnderDog

If you file a bug report on github maybe they can add the buttonbar to that area of Vanilla. Yoy can use plain html (like peregrine said) and markdown markup languages

vrijvlinder

You can use the marquee plugin and make it clickable that way you can make it look like anything you want. Or use a plugin like apt ads to add the messages you want.

or you can use simple css to make the message look a certain way. For example , adding line height will add space between the lines.

hgtonight

You might be interested in the following thread:

http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/comment/184782/#Comment_184782