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Have you wondered how to quote part of a post and then reply to it. The following is the easiest and safest way to do this:
Copy (to your computers memory) the part of a post you are replying to (select the text and then go to “edit” > “copy” or hit the “CTR” and “C” keys. Then click the “Quote” button. In the second window (where the quote is), you delete all the content (the whole quoted post) and then paste in that which you have in your computer's memory, (the part of the post you considered relevant). Pasting can be done by clicking the “Edit” menu and choosing “Paste”. or “CTRL and “V” keys.
The result is the quote comes out as if you quoted the whole post with the authors name and date etc, except it only contains the part that you are replying to.
This way a reader can see why you are giving your answer instead of seeing a whole post quoted above which a lot of people ignore.
The other method is that you quote a whole post and then edit your post later and delete the parts of the quoted post that is irrelevant. The downfall with this method is you can make a mistake by deleting a [/quote] tag for example because the quote tags are now visible.
Quote (heaven @ May 28 2007,11:36) Copy (to your computers memory) the part of a post you are replying to (select the text and then go to “edit” > “copy” or hit the “CTR” and “C” keys. Then click the “Quote” button. In the second window (where the quote is), you delete all the content (the whole quoted post) and then paste in that which you have in your computer's memory, (the part of the post you considered relevant). Pasting can be done by clicking the “Edit” menu and choosing “Paste”. or “CTRL and “V” keys.
I think I did it!Quote (Not3in1 @ May 28 2007,11:55) Quote (heaven @ May 28 2007,11:36) Copy (to your computers memory) the part of a post you are replying to (select the text and then go to “edit” > “copy” or hit the “CTR” and “C” keys. Then click the “Quote” button. In the second window (where the quote is), you delete all the content (the whole quoted post) and then paste in that which you have in your computer's memory, (the part of the post you considered relevant). Pasting can be done by clicking the “Edit” menu and choosing “Paste”. or “CTRL and “V” keys.
I think I did it!
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Have you wondered how to quote part of a post and then reply to it. The following is the easiest and safest way to do this:Copy (to your computers memory) the part of a post you are replying to (select the text and then go to “edit” > “copy” or hit the “CTR” and “C” keys. Then click the “Quote” button. In the second window (where the quote is), you delete all the content (the whole quoted post) and then paste in that which you have in your computer's memory, (the part of the post you considered relevant). Pasting can be done by clicking the “Edit” menu and choosing “Paste”. or “CTRL and “V” keys.
Quote (heaven @ May 28 2007,11:36) Have you wondered how to quote part of a post and then reply to it. The following is the easiest and safest way to do this: Copy (to your computers memory) the part of a post you are replying to (select the text and then go to “edit” > “copy” or hit the “CTR” and “C” keys. Then click the “Quote” button. In the second window (where the quote is), you delete all the content (the whole quoted post) and then paste in that which you have in your computer's memory, (the part of the post you considered relevant). Pasting can be done by clicking the “Edit” menu and choosing “Paste”. or “CTRL and “V” keys.
The result is the quote comes out as if you quoted the whole post with the authors name and date etc, except it only contains the part that you are replying to.
This way a reader can see why you are giving your answer instead of seeing a whole post quoted above which a lot of people ignore.
The other method is that you quote a whole post and then edit your post later and delete the parts of the quoted post that is irrelevant. The downfall with this method is you can make a mistake by deleting a
tag for example because the quote tags are now visible.[/quote]
Hiheaven,May wrote:Copy (to your computers memory) the part of a post you are replying to (select the text and then go to “edit” > “copy” or hit the “CTR” and “C” keys. Then click the “Quote” button. In the second window (where the quote is), you delete all the content (the whole quoted post) and then paste in that which you have in your computer's memory, (the part of the post you considered relevant). Pasting can be done by clicking the “Edit” menu and choosing “Paste”. or “CTRL and “V” keys.
I finally got it!
Quotes like all IB code and HTML must have an opening tag and a closing one and multiple tags must be nested.
e.g., of nesting. NOTE: these characters are not HTML but I am using them so you can see the pattern. I can't give real examples because they will be executed as code.
[1]This is a tag with an opening and closing tag.[/1]
[1]text[2]text[/2]text[/1]
[1]text[2]text[/1]text[2]
The last example is wrong as the tags overlap instead of being nested like the second example.
If this is just confusing, then just stick to [1] [/1] where 1 is replaced with the word quote. That is the simplest quote tag possible.
Any quote tags that are missing an opening or closing tag are outputted as text by the browser instead of being executed. The same can happen with overlapping tags. This is what happened with your post above.
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