FIX: Don't include link counts when selecting text to quote a post.

app/assets/javascripts/discourse/components/utilities.js

@@ -103,16 +103,30 @@ Discourse.Utilities = {
   },
 
   selectedText: function() {
-    var t;
-    t = '';
-    if (window.getSelection) {
-      t = window.getSelection().toString();
-    } else if (document.getSelection) {
-      t = document.getSelection().toString();
-    } else if (document.selection) {
-      t = document.selection.createRange().text;
+    var html = '';
+
+    if (typeof window.getSelection != "undefined") {
+        var sel = window.getSelection();
+        if (sel.rangeCount) {
+            var container = document.createElement("div");
+            for (var i = 0, len = sel.rangeCount; i < len; ++i) {
+                container.appendChild(sel.getRangeAt(i).cloneContents());
+            }
+            html = container.innerHTML;
+        }
+    } else if (typeof document.selection != "undefined") {
+        if (document.selection.type == "Text") {
+            html = document.selection.createRange().htmlText;
+        }
     }
-    return String(t).trim();
+
+    // Strip out any .click elements from the HTML before converting it to text
+    var div = document.createElement('div');
+    div.innerHTML = html;
+    $('.clicks', $(div)).remove();
+    var text = div.textContent || div.innerText || "";
+
+    return String(text).trim();
   },
 
   // Determine the position of the caret in an element

app/assets/javascripts/discourse/controllers/quote_button_controller.js

@@ -10,6 +10,11 @@ Discourse.QuoteButtonController = Discourse.Controller.extend({
   needs: ['topic', 'composer'],
   started: null,
 
+  init: function() {
+    this._super();
+    $LAB.script(assetPath('defer/html-sanitizer-bundle'));
+  },
+
   // If the buffer is cleared, clear out other state (post)
   bufferChanged: (function() {
     if (this.blank('buffer')) {
@@ -35,6 +40,7 @@ Discourse.QuoteButtonController = Discourse.Controller.extend({
     selectedText = Discourse.Utilities.selectedText();
     if (this.get('buffer') === selectedText) return;
     if (this.get('lastSelected') === selectedText) return;
+
     this.set('post', e.context);
     this.set('buffer', selectedText);
     top = e.pageY + 5;
@@ -44,35 +50,33 @@ Discourse.QuoteButtonController = Discourse.Controller.extend({
       top = this.started[1] - 50;
       left = ((left - this.started[0]) / 2) + this.started[0] - ($quoteButton.width() / 2);
     }
-    $quoteButton.css({
-      top: top,
-      left: left
-    });
+    $quoteButton.css({ top: top, left: left });
     this.started = null;
     return false;
   },
 
-  quoteText: function(e) {
-    var buffer, composerController, composerOpts, composerPost, post, quotedText,
-      _this = this;
-    e.stopPropagation();
-    post = this.get('post');
-    composerController = this.get('controllers.composer');
-    composerOpts = {
+  /**
+    Quote the currently selected text
+
+    @method quoteText
+  **/
+  quoteText: function() {
+    var post = this.get('post');
+    var composerController = this.get('controllers.composer');
+    var composerOpts = {
       post: post,
       action: Discourse.Composer.REPLY,
       draftKey: this.get('post.topic.draft_key')
     };
 
     // If the composer is associated with a different post, we don't change it.
-    if (composerPost = composerController.get('content.post')) {
-      if (composerPost.get('id') !== this.get('post.id')) {
-        composerOpts.post = composerPost;
-      }
+    var composerPost = composerController.get('content.post');
+    if (composerPost && (composerPost.get('id') !== this.get('post.id'))) {
+      composerOpts.post = composerPost;
     }
-    buffer = this.get('buffer');
-    quotedText = Discourse.BBCode.buildQuoteBBCode(post, buffer);
 
+    var buffer = this.get('buffer');
+    var quotedText = Discourse.BBCode.buildQuoteBBCode(post, buffer);
     if (composerController.wouldLoseChanges()) {
       composerController.appendText(quotedText);
     } else {
@@ -83,4 +87,5 @@ Discourse.QuoteButtonController = Discourse.Controller.extend({
     this.set('buffer', '');
     return false;
   }
+
 });

app/assets/javascripts/discourse/views/quote_buton_view.js

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Discourse.QuoteButtonView = Discourse.View.extend({
   classNameBindings: ['hasBuffer'],
 
   render: function(buffer) {
-    buffer.push("quote reply");
+    buffer.push(Em.String.i18n("post.quote_reply"));
   },
 
   hasBuffer: (function() {
@@ -25,17 +25,18 @@ Discourse.QuoteButtonView = Discourse.View.extend({
 
   didInsertElement: function() {
     // Clear quote button if they click elsewhere
-    var _this = this;
+    var quoteButtonView = this;
     return $(document).bind("mousedown.quote-button", function(e) {
       if ($(e.target).hasClass('quote-button')) return;
       if ($(e.target).hasClass('create')) return;
-      _this.controller.mouseDown(e);
-      _this.set('controller.lastSelected', _this.get('controller.buffer'));
-      return _this.set('controller.buffer', '');
+      quoteButtonView.controller.mouseDown(e);
+      quoteButtonView.set('controller.lastSelected', quoteButtonView.get('controller.buffer'));
+      return quoteButtonView.set('controller.buffer', '');
     });
   },
 
   click: function(e) {
+    e.stopPropagation();
     return this.get('controller').quoteText(e);
   }
 

config/locales/client.en.yml

@@ -517,6 +517,7 @@ en:
     post:
       reply: "Replying to {{link}} by {{replyAvatar}} {{username}}"
       reply_topic: "Reply to {{link}}"
+      quote_reply: "quote reply"
       edit: "Editing {{link}} by {{replyAvatar}} {{username}}"
       post_number: "post {{number}}"
       in_reply_to: "in reply to"