# Multi-quote **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [July 21, 2007, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multi-quote/412654 "2007-07-21T10:44:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![11811](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/9d8465/32.png) [@11811](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/11811)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2007, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multi-quote/412654/1 "2007-07-21T10:44:32Z")
How do you quote more than one post in the same reply? ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2007, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multi-quote/412654/2 "2007-07-21T11:25:24Z")
[QUOTE=11811] How do you quote more than one post in the same reply? [/QUOTE] [QUOTE=someone else] blah blah blah [/QUOTE] like that? \How do you quote more than one post in the same reply?\ \blah blah blah\ or like this? > [@clever person](#): > > what nitwit says something this dumb > [QUOTE=someone else] > blah blah blah [/quote] \ what nitwit says something this dumb?\blah blah blah\\\ just replace the \<\> with ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2007, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multi-quote/412654/3 "2007-07-21T14:30:09Z")
I wish the reply button would nest quotes. I also wish I were young and handsome. ---
**Author:** ![Cassie\_In\_The\_Attic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bc79bd/32.png) [@Cassie\_In\_The\_Attic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cassie_In_The_Attic)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2007, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multi-quote/412654/4 "2007-07-21T18:55:23Z")
\blah blah blah\ [QUOTE=Liberal] I wish the reply button would nest quotes. I also wish I were young and handsome. [/QUOTE] You aren’t the only one. I wish you were young and handsome too. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2007, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multi-quote/412654/5 "2007-07-21T20:03:53Z")
[QUOTE=Cassie In The Attic] \blah blah blah\ You aren’t the only one. I wish you were young and handsome too. 😉 [/QUOTE] I want you both to know, in a world where you’re just “pixels on a screen,” you’re both young and handsome to me. I am too, right? ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2007, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multi-quote/412654/6 "2007-07-22T00:02:30Z")
[QUOTE=Liberal] I wish the reply button would nest quotes. I also wish I were young and handsome. [/QUOTE] It used to be able to do that, years ago. I have no idea if you were handsome then. ---
**Author:** ![11811](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/9d8465/32.png) [@11811](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/11811)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2007, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multi-quote/412654/7 "2007-07-22T00:10:13Z")
\ \How do you quote more than one post in the same reply?\ Join Date: Nov 1999 Posts: 30,587 Location: Southern US \I wish the reply button would nest quotes. I also wish I were young and handsome.\ What did I just do wrong? ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2007, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multi-quote/412654/8 "2007-07-22T00:14:44Z")
[QUOTE=11811] \ \How do you quote more than one post in the same reply?\ Join Date: Nov 1999 Posts: 30,587 Location: Southern US \I wish the reply button would nest quotes. I also wish I were young and handsome.\ What did I just do wrong? [/QUOTE] Swap out the \<\> symbols with (facing the appropriate direction) and try again. You can test it on preview to see if it works. ---
**Author:** ![Gukumatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/74df32/32.png) [@Gukumatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gukumatz)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2007, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multi-quote/412654/9 "2007-07-22T22:06:08Z")
The SDMB doesn’t run pure HTML, the \<\> tags are replaced by [and] respectively. E.g. \Blatherblatherblather\ should be [quote]Blatherblatherblather [/quote] The effect being > [@](#): > > Blatherblatherblather I can’t recall the function for inserting the author’s name off the top of my head, though. If you want to quote parts (or seperate points) of another person’s post, just close off the quote in your post at the right places, then copy and paste the original quote tag. That’s what I do, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![milquetoast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@milquetoast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/milquetoast)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2007, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multi-quote/412654/10 "2007-07-23T13:20:10Z")
[QUOTE=Gukumatz] can’t recall the function for inserting the author’s name off the top of my head, though. [/QUOTE] If you click the **Reply** button within the post you want to quote (as opposed to the **Post Reply** button at the top or bottom of the thread), it automatically inserts that poster’s name in the quote tag (and quotes the entire post). Otherwise, add “=posterName” after the word QUOTE in the start tag to do it manually: \ (as opposed to just \). Of course, use for \< \> as stated above. ---
**Author:** ![Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleanor_of_Aquitaine)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2007, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multi-quote/412654/11 "2007-07-23T14:06:40Z")
The fast way is to hit the Reply button within the first post you want to quote, copy the text that produces and paste it into a blank text editor, like notepad. Then go back without submitting anything and hit Reply inside the next post you want to quote, and copy that text over to your editor. Repeat as necessary, and when you’ve assembled your entire reply, post that. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2007, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multi-quote/412654/12 "2007-07-24T13:10:18Z")
[QUOTE=Spectre of Pithecanthropus] It used to be able to do that, years ago. I have no idea if you were handsome then. [/QUOTE] I remember that, and I can say with some certainty that we were all younger. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2007, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multi-quote/412654/13 "2007-07-24T14:31:11Z")
[QUOTE=Eleanor of Aquitaine] The fast way is to hit the Reply button within the first post you want to quote, copy the text that produces and paste it into a blank text editor, like notepad. Then go back without submitting anything and hit Reply inside the next post you want to quote, and copy that text over to your editor. Repeat as necessary, and when you’ve assembled your entire reply, post that. [/QUOTE] The sad thing is that that’s the easy way. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2007, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multi-quote/412654/14 "2007-07-25T16:32:54Z")
> [@](#): > > I remember that, and I can say with some certainty that we were all younger. Well, maybe you guys were. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2007, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multi-quote/412654/15 "2007-07-25T17:43:44Z")
TPTB could add a “quote multiple post” button, but that might require an upgrade to 3.6.7. ---
**Author:** ![anson2995](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@anson2995](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anson2995)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2007, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multi-quote/412654/16 "2007-07-25T20:15:36Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout] I remember that, and I can say with some certainty that we were all younger. [/QUOTE] I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now.