Posted 07/26/2015 6:04 pm
Back when the forum started, there used to be a quick, easy Quote feature. Too easy, as it turns out, because too many people abused it, so now you basically have to do it manually.
If you click on "reply to Topic", one of the buttons in the "Format" section of the menu is the "Inset Quote" button. It looks like this:
However, all that clicking on this button dies is automatically type the following text for you:
[quote][/quote]
It's just as easy to type those particular codes in manually; you can also type the codes in manually using the Quick Reply box instead of the Reply to Topic page.
Now, the next step is to copy the particular text you wish to quote from someone else's post (or anywhere else on the Internet, for that matter) and paste it in between the two halves of the code. Thus, typing the following:
[quote]All the cool kids are doing it but I cant seem to figure out how to do it.[/quote]
Will cause the following to appear:
If you click on "reply to Topic", one of the buttons in the "Format" section of the menu is the "Inset Quote" button. It looks like this:
However, all that clicking on this button dies is automatically type the following text for you:
[quote][/quote]
It's just as easy to type those particular codes in manually; you can also type the codes in manually using the Quick Reply box instead of the Reply to Topic page.
Now, the next step is to copy the particular text you wish to quote from someone else's post (or anywhere else on the Internet, for that matter) and paste it in between the two halves of the code. Thus, typing the following:
[quote]All the cool kids are doing it but I cant seem to figure out how to do it.[/quote]
Will cause the following to appear:
Quote:
All the cool kids are doing it but I cant seem to figure out how to do it.
All the cool kids are doing it but I cant seem to figure out how to do it.
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
