Title: edited quicktags.js – nothing changes
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# edited quicktags.js – nothing changes

 *  [neurodoc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/neurodoc/)
 * (@neurodoc)
 * [17 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/edited-quicktagsjs-nothing-changes/)
 * When writing a post I do not use the visual editor, preferring to edit directly
   in the HTML editor (in fact I have turned the visual editor off in my user profile).
   I wanted to add a quicktag button and modify the blockquote button, so I made
   changes to quicktags.js. Alas, nothing changed. When I write a post the new button
   isn’t present, and the modifications to blockquote don’t work.
 * I also noticed that there are a number of buttons in quicktags that don’t appear
   on my bar when writing a post.
 * So is it possible to change the quicktag buttons in the html editor? If so, how?

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 *  [syncbox](https://wordpress.org/support/users/syncbox/)
 * (@syncbox)
 * [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/edited-quicktagsjs-nothing-changes/#post-788163)
 * I was just looking over the quicktags.js file and it appears to be much more 
   difficult to modify… if you look down near the end of the file, it looks like
   you have to not only make your changes up at the top (in previous versions of
   WordPress) but you have to integrate them into the functions.
 * Sigh. This was something that I really liked about the way it WAS.
 *  [eTraxx](https://wordpress.org/support/users/etraxx/)
 * (@etraxx)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/edited-quicktagsjs-nothing-changes/#post-788175)
 * Having had the same problem, I tried something simple. The Bold tag appears twice
   in quicktags.js
 * **First**:
 *     ```
       edButtons[edButtons.length] =
       new edButton('ed_strong'
       ,'b'
       ,'<strong>'
       ,'</strong>'
       ,'b'
       );
       ```
   
 * **Second**:
 * `t.Buttons[t.Buttons.length] = new edButton(name+'_strong','b','<strong>','</
   strong>','b');`
 * In both cases the label for the button is ‘b’
 * I changed that from the ‘b’ to ‘bold’ and uploaded the file. Nothing changes.
   I then noticed that in the Editor the ‘b’ label is **BOLD**. Look back at the
   code. It doesn’t **BOLD** the ‘b’ .. while the next bit of code for the _ has
   the ‘i’ in italic in the Editor. Again .. no formatting is done._
 * Tells me that the quicktags.js file is NOT being used to create the tags in the
   Editor.
 *  [eTraxx](https://wordpress.org/support/users/etraxx/)
 * (@etraxx)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/edited-quicktagsjs-nothing-changes/#post-788176)
 * Well. THAT is interesting. I have been using the Google Chrome browser. Guess
   what? I just tried IE, Firefox, Opera .. and they all show the **b** changed 
   to ‘Bold’. I went back to Chrome. Nadda. Tried refresh. Nadda.
 * So.

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