Emeraldtryst
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I just can't figure it out...I seem to screw it up every single time.
How do I use this quote thing?
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lovetoread
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Emeraldtryst said:
Hit the quote button, and type your reply either above or below the words that are in this box. You can pick and choose what you want to quote to,I do that all the time.
But just remember to not touch the
Emeraldtryst
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I tried that and it didn't attach the original poster's name to it...or can I just not see that it did?
lovetoread
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Emeraldtryst said:
Let me see......nope when you quote the name is there. Are you hitting the quote button inside the post you want to quote?
The quote button is next to the edit button above the post a reply one..
Weird Harold
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Emeraldtryst said:
If you use the quote button at the bottome right of the post you want to quote, it will format the text of the post you're quoting like the quote above.
Without the ssquare brackets, it looks like this:
{QUOTE}{i}Originally posted by Emeraldtryst {/i}
{B}I tried that and it didn't attach the original poster's name to it...or can I just not see that it did? {/B}{/QUOTE}
Where I put curly braces, you'll see square brackets when you quote. ({=[ and }=])
You can manually select and copy text from several messages and type the Quote, Italic, and Bold tags in yourself where you want/need them as long as you remember that they come in pairs -- for every {quote} there must be a {/quote} to end the quote formatting. For every {I} or {B} there must be the corresponding {/I} and {/B} tags to end the italics or bold.
In the "post a reply" form there is also a quote button, but it only adds the quote tags to your text. You must use the quote button instead of the reply button for the automatic quote formatting to work.
There is a help link next to the words "vB Code" in the reply form that explains all of the tags you can use in your posts.
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Sienna said:
Cute joke.
You did two things wrong with your test.
First, you left the sqaure bracket for the close quote tag ahead of the text -- There can't be any spaces between the square bracket and the tag it marks.
Second, the "close" tags all start with a backslash (/)
Use [/quote] to end the quote formatting that began with
lovetoread
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Its right....
lovetoread
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Now you get to pick and choose what you reply to. I love to be able to do that. Glad you got it.
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petrel said:
You got it basically right. The fact that you quoted something with mismatched quote tags in it made it more difficult than you'll normally encounter.
Formatting tags in vB codes or HTML are really very simple because they are just start/stop command pairs. It's when they get nested that makes them confusing.
"nesting" is when you start quoting and then quote something else inside the quote:
When you nest like that, you have to remember to stop quoting twice.
Aren't you all glad you're learning to program? That's basically what using Vb or HTML tags is -- programming your post to format the way you want it to.
Th Vb Code help page is very useful for figuring out what you can do besides quote.
http://forum.literotica.com/misc.php?action=bbcode#buttons
