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Old Aug 30, 2009, 04:58 PM
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A member just mentioned that she was having trouble including a quote (or some of the text from one) when replying to a post. If what she sees on her screen is the same as what I see on mine, the rest of the post she's replying to shows up as a quote but any quotes within it are simply omitted from the composer window.

I rely on the "Reply With Quote" feature only so far; I've gotten used to setting up my quotes by hand whenever necessary. Sometimes I'll highlight the text I'm quoting and use the "Wrap [ QUOTE ] tags around selected text" button but I'm also quite accustomed to setting up my QUOTE and /QUOTE <--- (brackets omitted on purpose) tags entirely by hand.

For anyone who's interested (and hasn't already figured it out for themselves): using the QUOTE and /QUOTE pair gives you a plain quote like this:
Quote:
using the QUOTE and /QUOTE pair gives you a plain quote like this
Using QUOTE=somebody gives you a quote with a name:
Quote:
Originally Posted by Fool Zero
Using QUOTE=somebody gives you a quote with a name
Using QUOTE=somebody;postnumber gives you a quote with a name and a little bitty box that's a link to the post the quote came from:
Quote:
Originally Posted by treehouse View Post
Can't figure out how to quote from inside a quote...
Post number?! What's a post number? Where do I find the post number? Why, I just go to the post I want to quote from, click the button as if I'm going to reply to it (with quote), copy the info from the resulting QUOTE tag, paste it into wherever I'm really quoting it, and back out of the other Reply window without posting.

Often the quote in a post is from another post in the same thread. In that case, I can click the "Multi-Quote This Message" button(s) at the bottom(s) of the post(s) where the quote(s) originally appeared, then reply (with quote) to the post where it was quoted (and edit the resulting composer window to include only the portions I want to quote in the order I want to quote them).

By the way, you can stack quote tags at least two levels deep if you like (I've never tried going deeper):
Quote:
This is a quote
Quote:
This is a quote within a quote
Quote:
Originally Posted by Fool Zero
This is a quote within a quote within a quote.
Good luck! I'm going to follow this thread for a while in case there are any questions, but the way I'd answer them would be no different from the way I'm inviting the rest of you to answer them for yourselves: try it and see!

Last edited by FooZe; Mar 20, 2021 at 11:40 PM. Reason: fixed more broken links
Thanks for this!
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