Okay,I understand how to quote someone,and that’s fine for a short sentence or paragraph.
But if I only want to quote a portion of a long paragraph,I can’t figure out how to separate one or two sentences in it.
Yes,I’ve been to vB coding,and still don’t get it. Or maybe it’s a feature(or non-feature) of my webtv.
Anyway I need someone to take me through it step by step,and give me an example quote post.I’m on tenterhooks,whatever that means.
A tip: when you want to see how some coding has been done, you can often click the “reply” button under a post instead of the “post reply” button at the bottom of the thread.
If you do that for your post, the text of your post is preceded by the word QUOTE in square brackets and at the end of your post there is another “tag”, this time /QUOTE (again in square brackets). As well as that there is an =AGELESS6 inside the first “tag”, which gives you the “originally posted by Ageless5” bit).
So any text you want to appear quoted, you just tell the computer “start quoted text” by typing QUOTE in square brackets at the start of the text, then “end quoted text” by typing /QUOTE in square brackets.
So to get
he said
I typed:
{quote=Bucko}Oh no{/quote}he said{quote}It’s only a wee bunny{/quote} only with square brackets instead of curly ones.
Try one, and use “preview post” to check how you’re going.
[QUOTE=hawthorne]
A tip: when you want to see how some coding has been done, you can often click the “reply” button under a post instead of the “post reply” button at the bottom of the thread.
If you do that for your post, the text of your post is preceded by the word QUOTE in square brackets and at the end of your post there is another “tag”, this time /QUOTE (again in square brackets). As well as that there is an =AGELESS6 inside the first “tag”, which gives you the “originally posted by Ageless5” bit).
So to get he saidI typed:
{quote=Bucko}Oh no{/quote}he said{quote}It’s only a wee bunny{/quote} only with square brackets instead of curly ones.
So I tried it and gotthis on preview,when all I wanted was the
[quote=hawthorn]
sentence. What did I do wrong?
Damn,I didn’t mean to send that.I was sure I had added
[/quote]
at the end, but I guss not.I’ll try again.
[QUOTE=hawthorne]
A tip: when you want to see how some coding has been done, you can often click the “reply” button under a post instead of the “post reply” button at the bottom of the thread.
If you do that for your post, the text of your post is preceded by the word QUOTE in square brackets and at the end of your post there is another “tag”, this time /QUOTE (again in square brackets). As well as that there is an =AGELESS6 inside the first “tag”, which gives you the “originally posted by Ageless5” bit).
I give up.Maybe it’s me or maybe it’s a failure between webtv and vB coding,but I can’t wipe out everything but the
[quote=hawthorn]
part,and I can’t get rid of the visible vB coding in the post.If anyone can tell me the mistakes I made,please do,but I’ve been up all night and I’m exhausted. Oh,yeah. I see that when I preview, the end quote tag just disappears. WTF!
and
produces.
and
not sure if that’s what you’re looking for but thought it would be nice to see the code exactly as it should b.
What I do is simply “reply w/ quote” and delete the text that I don’t want to appear in my post.
You can use the “quote” button in a previous post to quote that entire post in full. But if you want only a portion of it, you have two options:
OR
This second method is also useful if you want to quote two or more people, to give short responses to each, in a single post.
Also, there is nothing stopping you from quoting all or part of a full previous post, and embedding quote and end-quote coding in it so that you can address separate elements of it with distinct responses. Some people do this often, where a number of issues have been raised in a previous post and they want to address each separately.
In other words:
My response to point one.
My response to point two
…and so on
As I said,when I preview it somehow deletes the
[/quote]
tag from the sentence I want to separate from the rest of the post,and I suppose that’s the problem,but I just can’t get it to not delete it.
Strange – I’m presuming it’s a product of what “Preview” does and going to make a wild guess that it’s your browser interacting with the preview function (which has been glitchy in the past). I don’t know browsers – I’ve always used MSIE – but if you mention what you’re using, maybe someone who has tech. expertise in browsers can help diagnose this.
lol
tag from the sentence I want to separate from the rest of the post,and I suppose that’s the problem,but I just can’t get it to not delete it.
[/QUOTE]
Well, this is weird. I posted the above by by-passing preview and directly sending it, but it still came out showing the end quote tag. Can anyone tell me why that might be?
And Poly, Or anyone else…
I’m running WEBTV+;client version 2.9 if that’s what you meant.
I’m going to continue testing.
I typed a short sentence to ouryl and I got a notice that the message I entered was too short and had to have at least 2 characters in it. I had surrounded it with the quote and unquote tags.
The message had 24 characters.What the hell do they mean by too short?
Hello ouryl,how’s your sister?
You have two sets of [ /Quote] in the above posts, one directly after the other - why, I don’t know; I don’t know if you put them there accidentally, or if the second set appeared on its own for some strange reason. But that’s where the problem there is.
As to your other question, simply quoting someone doesn’t count towards your character minimum.
Okay,that time I didn’t use
,so I understand that but I still can’t separate one paragraph from a long post.
You discovered what I discovered: Anything inclosed in [/] don’t count in the minimum character count, hence the “lol”.
:eek: 
Thanks,Poly.If you were here,I’d hug you.I never heard of the u /u thing before.It came out underlined on preview,but at this point I don’t…wait a minute,it just occurred to me that U MEANS underline.Multiple shocking curses,this thing has made me too berserk to think!
Okay,where exactly is the QUOTE button in the post?
I hit reply,go to the post,and see nothing that looks like a quote button.