Firefox
Edit textareas using an external editor, because it's all text!
Right click on a textarea, select "It's All Text!" and edit the text in the editor of your choice.
Alternatively, click on the edit buttons added for your convenience. Right click on the edit buttons for even more options, including preferences.
| Version | 1.3.1 |
|---|---|
| Works with | Firefox: 3.0 – 3.5.* |
| Updated | March 18, 2009 |
| Developer | docwhat |
| Homepage | http://trac.gerf.org/itsalltext |
| Rating | Rated 5 out of 5 stars 102 reviews |
| Downloads | 201,092 Statistics |
More about this add-on
Ever started type into an edit box on some web page (such as to post a comment or describe why your scooter was defective and they should send you new one)?
If so, then you need "It's All Text!"
This miracle extension provides an edit button for any edit box[1] on any page or your money back[2]!
At the bottom right corner of any edit box, a little edit button will appear. Click it. If this is the first time you've used "It's All Text!" then you will be asked to set your preferences, most importantly the editor.
The web page will pop up in your selected editor. When you save it, it'll refresh in the web page. Wait for the magic yellow glow that means that the radiation has taken effect!
Remember, with great power outages come great responsibility outages.
Ciao!
PS: Mac OS X users. I'm sorry, but due to the way applications are, especially editors, using It's All Text! is a little harder than everyone else... see http://docwhat.gerf.org/2007/03/its_all_text_v06/ for some tricks. I do own a MacBook Pro now, but am focusing on lower level stuff, atm.
[1] Also known as a TEXTAREA to web nerds.
[2] I can give you nothing in abundance.
Support
Support for this add-on is provided by the developer at http://trac.gerf.org/itsalltext or by sending an e-mail to docwhat+org dot mozilla at gerf dot org
Developer Comments
The last information on development, etc. is at http://trac.gerf.org/itsalltext/
Reviews
Unfortunately there's no possibility to recover text if browser crashes and you have to re-login on a website. The add-on always uses the same text file for a webpage and deletes its content as soon as you navigate to a different page.
Rated 2 out of 5 stars by Paul Leger on November 15, 2009
After some tweaking, this plugin is really awesome. Especially when needing to post code into a page where tab makes it all a hell to work with, using something like vim and directly saving it to the page makes this exactly what a situation like that would need.
As the plugin doesn't lookup the command you specify in $PATH, I used a custom script containing the following:
gnome-terminal --hide-menubar -x vim -n "$1"
This will launch a terminal with vim inside it editing the file (when using gnome ;)).
Rated 5 out of 5 stars by akaIDIOT on November 12, 2009
Great tool when you need to edit code inside a form
I love it to with Typo3
Works great with notepad++ text editor
Rated 5 out of 5 stars by Gibouille on November 2, 2009
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