# Global coding prob: italics in quote box

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**Created:** [October 2, 2004, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/global-coding-prob-italics-in-quote-box/267162 "2004-10-02T06:38:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![Aeschines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aeschines/32/16251_2.png) [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2004, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/global-coding-prob-italics-in-quote-box/267162/1 "2004-10-02T06:38:26Z")

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I don’t know how it happens, but sometimes the coding for a whole thread or forum gets weird.

Right now, the content inside the first quote box of a post is coming up as italics. Not every quote box in a post necessesssarily does this.

Example:

> [@](#):
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> Why is this in italics?

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**Author:** ![Aeschines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aeschines/32/16251_2.png) [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2004, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/global-coding-prob-italics-in-quote-box/267162/2 "2004-10-02T06:40:43Z")

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Hmm, it didn’t do it. Take a look at other forums and you’ll see what I mean. Honest!

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**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2004, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/global-coding-prob-italics-in-quote-box/267162/3 "2004-10-02T17:58:37Z")

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> [@Aeschines](#):
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> Hmm, it didn’t do it. Take a look at other forums and you’ll see what I mean. Honest!

That looks like this: \<QUOTE=Aeschines\>Hmm, it didn’t do it. Take a look at other forums and you’ll see what I mean. Honest!\</QUOTE\>

> [@](#):
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> No italics

That looks like this: \<quote\>No italics\</quote\>

Replace \<\> with above. If you use the reply (to individual posts) button, it will automatically attribute that quote to the OP (\<QUOTE=Aeschines\> becomes “Originally posted by **Aeschines** ” and the message is always italicized). Some people just C&P using the regular \<QUOTE\>\</QUOTE\> and type the OP’s screen name either above or below the quote. That’s why some quotes are italicized and some are not.

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**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2004, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/global-coding-prob-italics-in-quote-box/267162/4 "2004-10-02T18:03:16Z")

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> [@Silver Fire](#):
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> That looks like this: \<QUOTE=Aeschines\>Hmm, it didn’t do it. Take a look at other forums and you’ll see what I mean. Honest!\</QUOTE\>

Now, if I’m doing the “reply to each and every point” method of reply, I’ll use the Reply to this Post button and place \</quote\> tags after each point I wish to respond to.

> [@](#):
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> That looks like this: \<quote\>No italics\</quote\>

So then, when I come to another point, I have to start a quote tag again. See here that the quoted section is no longer italicized. That’s because most people manually type \<QUOTE\> rather than…

> [@Silver Fire](#):
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> Replace \<\> with above. If you use the reply (to individual posts) button, it will automatically attribute that quote to the OP (\<QUOTE=Aeschines\> becomes “Originally posted by **Aeschines** ” and the message is always italicized). Some people just C&P using the regular \<QUOTE\>\</QUOTE\> and type the OP’s screen name either above or below the quote. That’s why some quotes are italicized and some are not.

\<QUOTE=User Name\>.

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**Author:** ![Aeschines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aeschines/32/16251_2.png) [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/global-coding-prob-italics-in-quote-box/267162/5 "2004-10-03T08:51:02Z")

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Thanks for the expl.

I feel we don’t need italics where the user name is used. Do we?