I installed BBCodePlus https://github.com/mantisbt-plugins/BBC ... ster-2.0.x plug-in in my mantis installation, and it works on text areas just fine. I can manually do [ b]some text[ /b] etc and it will show me bold/italic etc.
Note from the Github README:
"NOTE: This plugin does NOT interact well with the Markdown Processing feature of the Mantis Formatting plugin. Disabling the functionality is advised."
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The toolbar is added via the javascript file '/files/markitup-init.js'. You can see which type of inputs it's supposed to add the toolbar to by looking at the code:
(function($) {
$(document).ready(function() {
// declare the path to the previewer using the plugin file processor.
mySettings.previewParserPath = "./plugin.php?page=BBCodePlus/preview.php";
// apply to proper text areas.
if ( $("textarea[name='bugnote_text']") )
$("textarea[name='bugnote_text']").markItUp(mySettings);
if ( $("textarea[name='description']") )
$("textarea[name='description']").markItUp(mySettings);
if ( $("textarea[name='steps_to_reproduce']") )
$("textarea[name='steps_to_reproduce']").markItUp(mySettings);
if ( $("textarea[name='additional_info']") )
$("textarea[name='additional_info']").markItUp(mySettings);
if ( $("textarea[name='additional_information']") )
$("textarea[name='additional_information']").markItUp(mySettings);
if ( $("textarea[name='body']") )
$("textarea[name='body']").markItUp( mySettings );
if ( $("textarea[name^='custom_field_']") )
$("textarea[name^='custom_field_']").markItUp( mySettings );
// add snippet text area
if ( $(".snippetspatternhelp textarea[name='value']") )
$(".snippetspatternhelp textarea[name='value']").markItUp( mySettings );
});
})(jQuery);
I added a little custom code to mine at the end to add the toolbar to the Snippets plugin.
Maybe you aren't using the JQuery UI plugin? I'm not sure if it's required, but I do have it installed.