Answer Form at Bottom - 'answer' button hiding it

Question

I used Noah's trick to put the answer form at the bottom :

http://www.question2answer.org/qa/11255/how-do-i-move-the-answer-form-below-the-current-answers

 

But when the user doesn't know this and clicks on 'answer', the form disappears. I think it'd be smarter if 'answer' redirects to the form through <a name=''> and <a href=''> procedures.

 

Is it possible to do this without hard-coding

Answer 1

I managed to get this done by hard-coding, but someone with a plugin or something like that - this would be much appreciated.

 

The hard-coding was as follows : 

 

In qa-page-question-view.php I used this code : 

 

 

if ($question['answerbutton']) // don't show if shown by default

$buttons['answer']=array(

'tags' => 'name="q_doanswer" id="q_doanswer" href="#a_form" type="button" onclick="var e=\'anew\' ? document.getElementById(\'anew\') : null;var t=$(e).offset().top;var h=$(e).height()+16;var wt=$(window).scrollTop();var wh=$(window).height();if ( (t<wt) || (t>(wt+wh)) ) qa_scroll_page_to(t);else if ((t+h)>(wt+wh)) qa_scroll_page_to(t+h-wh);if (e.qa_focus)e.qa_focus();"',

//onclick="return qa_toggle_element(\'anew\')"',

'label' => qa_lang_html('question/answer_button'),

'popup' => qa_lang_html('question/answer_q_popup'),

);

 

instead of :

 

if ($question['answerbutton']) // don't show if shown by default

$buttons['answer']=array(

'tags' => 'name="q_doanswer" id="q_doanswer" onclick="return qa_toggle_element(\'anew\')"',

'label' => qa_lang_html('question/answer_button'),

'popup' => qa_lang_html('question/answer_q_popup'),

);

 

Comments

Partly great solution, thank You !

But if I am right it works well only if the setting is:

- Show ALWAYS the answer box.

If it is set to:

- Show only, if there are no posts, it does not work if You already have posts.

It does not jump to the desired position. I think it does not find the anchor where to jump as there is no answer box in the code ?

The same if the setting is:

NEVER show the answerbox.

It does not jump and not toggle.

For the moment I will work with the first setting, but the second one would be more interesting for me...

---

Lets say, the original method does work, the user just cant see it, as the box or the login to post dialog is at the end of the page.

If I understand it right it would be best to have first moving the page into the right position and after that to toggle show/dont show...

---

Yeah there are some bugs, so I disabled it, but I'll work on it again this evening if I have the time!

Answer 2

Find it here http://www.question2answer.org/qa/11255/how-do-i-move-the-answer-form-below-the-current-answers

Comments

It's another issue @jatin.soni. The problem described in the question is when a user clicks "answer" the form disappears because it was already there.

Answer 3

My hint for that would be hiding answer button if user is connected that all.