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I made a “Convert” button next to bp “Post Update” button. Before “Post Update”, if click “Convert” will convert some special charactor in the text into new text. Somehow, it doesn’t work.
Here’s how I add the “Convert” button in post-form.php
` Convert`
If I change the button to
` Convert`
this way, clicking the button can return message of the textarea value

So, seems external javascript function is not able to input text in the post? Please help!