# Quotation Marks in Thread Titles **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [June 2, 2000, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotation-marks-in-thread-titles/21239 "2000-06-02T18:41:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![sdimbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sdimbert/32/20204_2.png) [@sdimbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sdimbert)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2000, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotation-marks-in-thread-titles/21239/1 "2000-06-02T18:41:37Z")
I started a thread in the Pit recently that had quotation marks in the title. The title is now listed, cut off at the first quotation - What did I do wrong? I remember reading about this some time ago in a thread here, but my search came up dry. ??? ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2000, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotation-marks-in-thread-titles/21239/2 "2000-06-02T20:58:52Z")
Here’s the thread you were talking about, I think. [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=25647](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=25647) It looks like vB doesn’t support quotation marks in the topic (title) line. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2000, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotation-marks-in-thread-titles/21239/3 "2000-06-03T00:34:00Z")
When you use quotation marks in some places, the system reads it as “take everything between the quotes as ubb coding” and handles it in that fashion. I suspect that’s what happens in the subject line. Just leave 'em off there. your humble TubaDiva Administrator