Eleot's Content Editable Text Formatter

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This extension is no longer available in the official store. Delisted on 2025-09-15.

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Description from extension meta

Yet another text formatting extension, because the others I tried didn't seem to work satisfactory.

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Eleot's Content Editable Text Formatter
Description from store

This extension allows you to format text in online rich text editors, such as Gmail[1] and TinyMCE[2]. The formatting is achieved using some simple syntax followed by a keyboard shortcut.

This extension has two use cases:

1) You want to keep your fingers at the keyboard while formatting your text (instead of reaching for your mouse and clicking on buttons).
2) You want to use a formatting for which the rich text editor does not offer a button (try typing strike trough in gmail).

Usage:
The formatting is achieved by pressing <ctrl>+<space> after typing a certain trigger character. For instance: -hello-<ctrl>+<space> will make the hello appear in strikethrough.

There is a popup cheat sheet with all formatting options when you click the extensions icon in the chrome toolbar.

Note:
It is not a goal for this extension to make it work for every rich text editor out there. It is currently only extensively tested in gmail.

[1] - https://mail.google.com
[2] - http://www.tinymce.com/tryit/full.php

Latest reviews

Chris Lozeau 2013-09-18

Could have been a great strike-through feature for Gmail, however it unfortunately only works with one word. You can't do it for a whole sentence.

Hillary Benefiel 2013-09-17

Only works sometimes. Doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to when it will or won't work. I only use it because it's one of the only apps that allows me to do strikethrough. Very frustrating.

Bill Thompson 2013-05-09

Can't get this to work on a Mac. -word- + Control + Space = nothing.

Victor Schappert 2013-05-06

Does exactly what I need. Easy to use interface. Nice.

mingk Chung 2013-04-09

This is a simple but working solution to strikethrough text in gmail. However, can you let user define the activation keys (instead of ctrl +space)?

Alan M. 2013-02-20

This extension is great. I agree with the two previous reviews. It's exactly what I needed and it works like a charm.

Olivier Martineau 2013-02-14

Exactly what I needed for Gmail. Works like it says. Nice.

Martijn Brekhof 2013-01-06

Works like a charm.

Statistics

Installs
152
Market
Chrome Web Store
Category
7_productivity
Rating
3.1 (10 votes)
Last update
2013-01-06
Version 1.0.9
Languages
en