Forum Question

[theoldprof]

I often see another person's quote in a blue box on different posts. How do I go about posting a quote from another post?

 

[Poorboy]

Click on "Quote" and it will appear. Then take your cursor to the Bottom of the Quote and it starts a New Line for your response..

 

[jaminjim]

I often see another person's quote in a blue box on different posts. How do I go about posting a quote from another post?

Ya mean this?

 

[P51bombay]

I often see another person's quote in a blue box on different posts. How do I go about posting a quote from another post?

No, he wants to take a quote from one thread and use it in another thread. Its easy enough to do:

- click the quote button from the thread you want.

- highlight it and use ctl X or right click and select the cut option

- then open a reply in the other thread and paste it in with ctl V or right click and select the paste option

- type your reply.

 

[jaminjim]

Oh my I knew someone would fall for that... but the OVM.

Shame on you.

You mean that?

 

[theoldprof]

click the quote button from the thread you want.

- highlight it and use ctl X or right click and select the cut option

You mean like this? Thanks.



Didn't Work.

 

[P51bombay]

click the quote button from the thread you want.

- highlight it and use ctl X or right click and select the cut option

You mean like this? Thanks.

No, if you remove the parenthesis and the words "quote" you lose the blue box.

 

[Turtle]

Quoted text must begin with the word "quote" in brackets, and end with a bracket, slash, quote and bracket. The brackets and the word quote tells the software what to quote. Everything between the beginning and ending brackets (the ending one being the one with the slash) gets quoted.

[noparse]

quoted text and stuff

[/noparse]

Gives you

quoted text and stuff

[noparse]

quoted text and stuff

[/noparse]

gives you

quoted text and stuff

And if you want a clickable icon to the post that the quoted text came from, you add the post ID to the User Name after a semicolon (you can get that number from the Permalink link)

[noparse]

quoted text and stuff from another thread

[/noparse]
gives you

quoted text and stuff from another thread, except the Message Id is not real and if you click on icon you'll go nowhere.

There are lots of 'commands' you can put in brackets, just make sure you have that "/" at the beginning of the ending bracket to signify and end to the command.

One of them is [noparse] [noparse] and [/noparse] [/noparse] which makes it possible to type things in brackets and have them show as text instead of being parsed as a command. And [noparse] bold text [/noparse] gives you bold text. You can use the WYSIWYG controls on the text editor, or you can use the commands directly.

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