BBCode CODE Box

[Jaggi]

when we post code on the forum its usually because we want to avoid ipb's parser but mostly because it actually has code inside it. Usually we'd refer to a part of that code and i thought a simple but good addition would be to have line numbers for code inside code boxes as it'd make things much more efficient and its a easy implementation. I know people saying that oh "what if i wanna copy code" well i'd suggest having the line numbers and code in separate divs so you can copy the code without getting the line numbers.

[Luke]

As you mentioned the problem is with copying and pasting code. If you want to add line numbers, why not just add them yourself? Like this?

1 <?php
2 print "my useless code";
3 ?>

[Jaggi]

cus that way you would copy numbers, my solution to that is having the numbers in a separate div to the code.

[Luke]

It doesn't matter if it's in another div box or not, you still copy from left to right.

[Jaggi]

of course it matters. You have one div with the numbers in it set to float left. then another div with the code set to float right. dunno if theres a better way but this works and you can just copy the code without having to worry about line numbers. from left to right or right to left, whatever suits ya.