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HTML to BBCode

Luxcario

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So, I found this thingy that turns HTML code/script into BBCode. Very useful. Anyways, this might be a help to you, so the link is ~¬here¬~
for all of you people to use.
 
it works somewhat like a translator that translates every word literally. thus, it chokes on anything that doesn't look more or less exactly as expected.
 
It works with image HTML. To prove, I'll use it now.

HTML: 
<a href="http://s724.photobucket.com/albums/ww241/klinecars3/Pokemon%20Cascade%20and%20Agate%20Sprites/?action=view&current=Doramizu.gif" target="_blank"><img src="http://i724.photobucket.com/albums/ww241/klinecars3/Pokemon%20Cascade%20and%20Agate%20Sprites/Doramizu.gif" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>

Code: 
[PLAIN][img]http://i724.photobucket.com/albums/ww241/klinecars3/Pokemon%20Cascade%20and%20Agate%20Sprites/Doramizu.gif[/img][/PLAIN]

Doramizu.gif
 
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Dātura;553769 said:
I like how the converter's default text is the long-deprecated <font> tag.
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Well, strictly speaking, <font color="..."> although deprecated is the direct equivalent of [color=...]. Since BBcode is presentational and not semantic, the best analogues for BBcode tags are the old deprecated presentational tags.

Its not that smart, either. It doesn't recognize CSS at all. It also converted
Code: 
<font style="color: blue">blue</font>
to
Code: 
blue[/color]
This was last updated five years ago and it shows. It uses a mixture of substring matching and regexes to do its parsing. A better approach would have been to use the browser's built-in HTML parser (because, y'know, browsers have those) to iterate through the DOM and translate each node into an appropriate bbcode tag. Hell, it'd even be possible to translate CSS colors that way.
 
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