Reply button in conversation footer

[Eolesen]

My users hated the "comment" versus "reply" function, so I commented it out in the conversation_footer template.

For whatever reason, there was no "Reply" js function included, or if it is, I haven't been able to invoke it.

I'm halfway there --- by using an anchor called "footerquickreply" and adding an "onclick" event that invokes the GetElementByID and ScrollintoView methods, I'm able to move to just before the CKEditor toolbar.

Where I'm stuck..... trying to set focus in the editor as happens with the Quote button. The form lives inside an iFrame and doesn't have an ID field.

Any ideas? I can live with the halfway solution, but would really like to do that last step of setting the cursor focus where it belongs.

[glennrocksvb]

Why don't you just trigger a click to the Post Reply button in the conversation toolbar?

[Eolesen]

You know.... sometimes you can stare at a problem so long that the easy way out escapes you.

Re-using the click event worked.... perfectly.....

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Old:

<vb:comment> Ignoring this because I hate comments vs. replies
<vb:if condition="(!empty($controls['showCommentCtrl']) OR !empty($showAll)) AND $conversation['can_comment'] > 0">
<li id="comment-{vb:var conversation.nodeid}" class="h-margin-top-xs b-post-control b-post-control--responsive js-post-control__comment js-link" tabindex="0">
<span class="b-icon b-icon__speech-single--gray b-post-control__icon"></span>
<span class="b-post-control__label">{vb:phrase comment}</span>
</li>
</vb:if>
</vb:comment>

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New:

<vb:comment>START: This is the faux-reply button</vb:comment>
<vb:if condition="(!empty($controls['showQuoteCtrl']) OR !empty($showAll)) AND !empty($conversation['can_use_multiquote'])">
<li id="comment-{vb:var conversation.nodeid}" class="h-margin-top-xs b-post-control b-post-control--responsive" tabindex="0">
<span onclick="document.getElementById('btnPostReply-top').click();" class="b-icon b-icon__speech-single--gray b-post-control__icon"></span>
<span onclick="document.getElementById('btnPostReply-top').click();" class="b-post-control__label">Reply</span>
</li>
</vb:if>
<vb:comment>END: This is the faux-reply button</vb:comment>

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I'm including what got coded out along with what got added so that you can find it if you're interested...

[glennrocksvb]

Nice one! You can move the onclick to the parent <li> tag so you don't have to add it twice to the 2 child span tags