I like the way stackexchange does quotes, I attempted to add it to my site, but didn't get it to work across multiple lines, only one line. What do I need to change to do multiple lines?
Here is what I am currently using:
val = val.replace(/^>(.+?)($|\n)/ig, "<blockquote>$1</blockquote>");
Edit
I decided to go for a different style.
val = val.replace(/""([\s\S]*.+?)""/igm, "<blockquote>$1</blockquote>");
I abandoned doing this in regex.
var a = '>abc\n>def\n>ghi'.split( /\n/ ); // [">abc", ">def", ">ghi"]
var previousInBlock = false;
var currentInBlock = false;
var nextInBlock = false;
for( var i = 0; i < a.length; i++ ) {
previousInBlock = currentInBlock;
currentInBlock = a[i].indexOf( ">" ) === 0;
nextInBlock = ( i + 1 ) < a.length ? a[i+1].indexOf( ">" ) === 0 : false;
if ( currentInBlock ) {
a[i] = a[i].slice( 1 );
if( !previousInBlock ) {
a[i] = "<blockquote>" + a[i];
}
if ( !nextInBlock ) {
a[i] = a[i] + "</blockquote>";
}
}
}
a.join( "\n" );
The above code can handle multiple sets of blockquotes.
Instead of replacing, try to match against each line, then combine the matched lines into one string.
Something like this:
var val = '>abc\n>def\n>ghi',
regex = /(?:^>)(.+)(?:$|\n)/img,
match = '', quote = [];
while((match = regex.exec(val)) !== null){
quote.push(match[1]);
}
val = '<blockquote>'+quote.join('<br/>')+'</blockquote>';
