How to quote another members post.

[Captain Sensible]

Sometimes the simplest things can be the most difficult, and again, until you know how to do something it might seem impossible.

If you want to quote another members post so that you can make a comment about their post and keep it in context, simply click on the 'Quote' icon at bottom right of the members post that you want to quote.

< This is what you are looking for. The other one is a quick reply icon which has nothing to do with quoting.

As an example I have just quoted Wally Dorian Raffles in the 'Falang vs Farang' debate.

This is the screen shot of what I see when I clicked on Wally's post.



I can now type in my response to his post after the code [/quote] and here is what I typed.



Once you are happy that what you have typed will not make you appear as a complete and utter fool then simply hit 'submit'.
Remember that you can always preview what you are about to post by clicking on the 'Preview Post' button. This will show you what your post will look like before you commit to posting it.

Anyway, this is a screenshot of how my post looked like once I hit the 'Submit' button.



It is pretty straight forward and I am sure that once you have used the function a couple of times it will be easy peezy.

[Captain Sensible]

Now all that is pretty straight forward and the software will do it all for you but there may be times when you want to quote someones post manually.
To do this all you need to do is get your head around the code that makes it work.
Be aware that the codes on different boards may vary slightly.
On this board the code for quoting is simply

[quote]...Whatever the content of what you are quoting is... and then followed by closing the quote with [/quote ] (nb. without the space at the end before this bracket "]"

This will simply bring up whatever you have quoted in a quote box with the word 'Quote' as its header.

If you wanted to manually quote another member you will have to include their nik.
This is done by typing in the following code....

[quote=The other members nik] whatever the fool actually posted[/quote ]
again without the space before the final bracket "]".

I aint the best tutorial writer in the world but I hope that this is at least comprehensible.
If you have any questions please post them here and I will endeavour to answer them. However I reckon that if you have a play around with it and use the 'Preview' function you will be quoting with confidence in no time.

Enjoy.

[Xzyte]

It is pretty straight forward and I am sure that once you have used the function a couple of times it will be easy peezy.

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Hey CS, nice tutorial but I think you should also mention multiple quotes.

[Xzyte]

It seems I was to slow with my comments. Sorry about that CS

[Captain Sensible]

It seems I was to slow with my comments. Sorry about that CS

Actually Xzyte, KK brought up an interesting point about quoting posts with quotes in. If that makes sense. He confused the bijesus out of me with it actually.
So how can I quote a quoted post?

[Captain Sensible]

Hey CS, nice tutorial but I think you should also mention multiple quotes.

Like this one. This post had two quotes in it yet when I quote it by clicking the quote icon all I get is what you wrote less the actual two quotes that you quoted.

My head is starting to hurt again.

[Xzyte]

It seems I was to slow with my comments. Sorry about that CS

Actually Xzyte, KK brought up an interesting point about quoting posts with quotes in. If that makes sense. He confused the bijesus out of me with it actually.
So how can I quote a quoted post?

Just select and copy the Quote part of the message first and then paste it into the reply window.

[Captain Sensible]

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[Marmite the Dog]

I'm with the Cap on this one. Can we have it set up so the quote function quotes the whole of the post, not just the last written entry? (If ya know wot I mean...)

[Xzyte]

I'm with the Cap on this one. Can we have it set up so the quote function quotes the whole of the post, not just the last written entry? (If ya know wot I mean...)

I know what you mean, let me check some of the code and look if I can add that.

[Marmite the Dog]

^ You are dude!

[Xzyte]

I'm with the Cap on this one. Can we have it set up so the quote function quotes the whole of the post, not just the last written entry? (If ya know wot I mean...)

I know what you mean, let me check some of the code and look if I can add that.

^ You are dude!

It should work now Marmite & CS

[Marmite the Dog]

I'm with the Cap on this one. Can we have it set up so the quote function quotes the whole of the post, not just the last written entry? (If ya know wot I mean...)

I know what you mean, let me check some of the code and look if I can add that.

^ You are dude!

It should work now Marmite & CS

So it seems. Good work sah!

[stroller]

I'm with the Cap on this one. Can we have it set up so the quote function quotes the whole of the post, not just the last written entry? (If ya know wot I mean...)

I know what you mean, let me check some of the code and look if I can add that.

^ You are dude!

It should work now Marmite & CS

So it seems. Good work sah!

Great stuff!

[Thetyim]

Another good trick is to highlight a quote and then click on q-quote in someone elses post.

So it seems. Good work sah!

[aging one]

Nice tips to play with when you are bored Cappy, cool!

[RandomChances]

Nice tips to play with when you are bored Cappy, cool!

l Like that ? Could take miss-qouting to the limits

[Thetyim]

Another good trick is to highlight a quote and then click on q-quote in someone elses post.

I just said that you idiot.
Stop repeating everything I say.

[ChiangMai noon]

I prefer to use the bbcode thingy with firefox.

[stroller]

I prefer to use the Smeg thingy with firefox.

What is that?