Implemented Make "+" more visible!

[TheBigK]

I'm sure I'm not the only one - but it'd be nice if the multi-quote "+" is a bit more visible. I think it'd be a better idea to show it as a 'button' [+].

 

[Moshe1010]

Yep, it's a problem on smartphones, especially on my iPhone. I can easily hit the "Reply" button next to the "+".

 

[James]

The concept behind the public controls is that they're simplistic and text-based. Making it into an actual button would take away from that.

I do agree that it is a little small and at first glance you'd wonder what it was.

 

[Daniel Hood]

Here's what it would look like as a button



I do think it could be more visible, people unfamiliar with it may not notice it and if they do notice it might respond with "what's this + here for?"

 

[Paul B]

Styling it as a button is inconsistent with all of the other controls/links

 

[TheBigK]

I hope, they can make it look much better (personal opinion).

 

[James]

Here's what it would look like as a button

View attachment 65400

I do think it could be more visible, people unfamiliar with it may not notice it and if they do notice it might respond with "what's this + here for?"

Do you not think that the button looks slightly out of place among the other controls? They all serve a post-related purpose and should look similar IMO

 

[Moshe1010]

Styling it as a button is inconsistent with all of the other controls/links

Why not changing it to a text?

 

[Chris D]

It's easily styled.

.MultiQuoteControl .symbol
{
    // desired styling here
}

You could probably also do a couple of simple template edits.

Looking at the code:

<a href="threads/make-more-visible.67154/reply?quote=705351" data-add="+" data-remove="−" data-messageid="705351" class="MultiQuoteControl item control" title="Add or Remove this message to Multi-Quote"><span></span><span class="symbol">+</span></a>

I think there could be a couple of changes here.

First the data-add and data-remove attributes would likely enable you to replace that with "Include Multi Quote" and "Exclude Multi Quote" (or similar) and maybe one more edit to set its default state to match one of those strings, and you should get this:



Or this:

 

[Daniel Hood]

Do you not think that the button looks slightly out of place among the other controls? They all serve a post-related purpose and should look similar IMO

Yeah, it looks bad as a button in my opinion. I just felt bad immediately shooting down his idea so I figured I'd just show him without actually commenting on how it looked lol

 

[Paul B]

I will probably change it on my install, not sure what to yet though.
Possibly [+] and [-] or MQ+ and MQ-

I'm not too worried though as the important thing is it can be styled to suit.

 

[TheBigK]

Yeah, it looks bad as a button in my opinion. I just felt bad immediately shooting down his idea so I figured I'd just show him without actually commenting on how it looked lol

Well; I'd be fine with that button - but new users would definitely have a hard time figuring out how to use it. Of course we can style it to suit our needs.

 

[James]

 

[TLMD]

I wonder why instead of the "+" it isn't just saying "Multiquote" or "+Multiquote" (to show that this adds something)? Just my ideas...

 

[Jay]

yeah wrapping a pair of brackets around the symbol would be great

 

[James]

I wonder why instead of the "+" it isn't just saying "Multiquote" or "+Multiquote" (to show that this adds something)? Just my ideas...

Because Kier & Mike believe in simplicity, hence why we're not bombarded with images when browsing. It's worked for them so far!

 

[TLMD]

Because Kier & Mike believe in simplicity, hence why we're not bombarded with images when browsing. It's worked for them so far!

I was talking about text only though...

 

[Alpha1]

How about a font awesome + icon?

 

[Allan]

I will probably change it on my install, not sure what to yet though.
Possibly [+] and [-] or MQ+ and MQ-

I'm not too worried though as the important thing is it can be styled to suit.

[+] and [-]

 

[Lawrence]

I'll be changing it to MQ+ and MQ-, more intuitive for users IMO.