How do you insert the italicised heading “originally posted by…” into a quote in a post? I have looked in vb codes and searched, with no luck.
When you click on the Quote button below the post, like I did for this, the codes are automatically put in the quote.
Hitting the “quote” button will show you different little tricks that you want to perform with code.
Just find a post where the trick you want to learn is used, hit “quote” and see how they did it.
If quoting two sources, you have to type in {i}originally posted by skunkface{/i} the second time.
[ul]:eek: [sup]and always preview![/sup][/ul]
Thank you all very much for that 
mine doesn’t do that, it just comes up like I’m putting it in bold type or something
what am I doing wrong?
[QUOTE]
mine doesn’t do that, it just comes up like I’m putting it in bold type or something
what am I doing wrong?
is that it?
[QUOTE]
*Originally posted by greck *
**
ok, i think I got it now
yep, got it
Actually, you can hit the Quote button on one post, then select all the text in the yet un-sent reply that appears, and copy (Ctrl+C) it to the clipboard. Then go back to the thread, hit the other Quote button, and paste (Ctrl+V) the first quote into the reply. I don’t know if it’s really worth it, but technically, you don’t have to type the * code into the second one.
That took some snazzy coding and of course I knew how to discover your tricks. 
I wish there were a Preferences pane that would let me customize the way it formats quotes. I don’t like the quoted text all in bold. I do like the poster’s name in bold. I prefer the “originally posted by” header to be above rather than within the quote bounds. Therefore I usually do it manually.
I used the “quote” function to get this, but deleted the [b] and [/b] coding from the quoted text and added it in around “AHunter3” – not terribly tough. (Getting the [b] and [/b] codes to show up right in my text was much harder!
Polycarp:
I just select and copy; I’ve got Control-B set up to create the start bold code and Control-Option-B to create the end bold code (I’m on a Mac so the Control key is usually not doing much of anything), and, similarly, Control i and Control-Option-i start and end italics. Control [ enters the start quote code and Control-Option-[ enters the end quote code.
So actually the only time it’s less of a hassle to use the quote button below the post is when it is a poster whose screen name I’m not familiar with, so that I don’t have to make a second journey upscreen to verify the spelling of the poster’s name.
hey! :mad: very funny!
you knew it was going to do that!