Wordpress Comments - Rich Text

Question

I've had a question from a client to enable image based stickers in the comment system. I've built a basic jQuery script which will allow the selection of a sticker and add it as markup in the comment textarea;

jQuery(".stickers img").click(function(){
   var img = jQuery(this).parent().html();
   var text = jQuery("#respond textarea").val();
   jQuery("#respond textarea").val(text + img);
});

While this works just fine upon hitting submit, the user is presented with raw HTML code until this happens.

I did see a plugin called "Rich Text Editor for Comments", but this appears to have been removed for the WP repository.

Does anyone know of a similar plugin, or how the comment textarea could be adapted to use rich text by default?

Answer 1

I have found a way by using nicEdit here's the tutorial.

In order to get this fully functioning, I had to amend my script slightly.

jQuery(".stickers img").click(function(){
    var img = jQuery(this).parent().html();
    var text = jQuery("#respond .nicEdit-main").html();
    jQuery("#respond .nicEdit-main").html(text + img);
});

I hope this helps someone.