# Quote boxes as hyperlinks **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [June 26, 2017, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-boxes-as-hyperlinks/789946 "2017-06-26T22:50:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2017, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-boxes-as-hyperlinks/789946/21 "2017-06-29T01:17:19Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > But as far as annoying, like I said, mild at best. I get more annoyed when people recode the quotes to say Quoth instead. _That_ annoys me. Love to know how to do it though… Mostly for Trump threads. No reason. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2017, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-boxes-as-hyperlinks/789946/22 "2017-06-29T01:55:35Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > Sorry for explaining the obvious and thank you for graciously handling it. 🙂 You rock, **Sunny**! ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2017, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-boxes-as-hyperlinks/789946/23 "2017-06-29T02:24:33Z")
Quoth Sunny Daze > [@](#): > > Love to know how to do it though… Mostly for Trump threads. No reason. Like this, nothing special just some recoding and rewording, but when someone does this, it makes it difficult to use the quote button on their post. If someone were to quote this post, even though it’s written by me (Joey P), the first line would be “Quoth Sunny Daze” and it may be attributed by other readers. But, in general, I just never understood why people would go through the trouble. It’s like when I see a link that’s the wrong shade of blue and realize that the poster manually changed the color. Why? In both cases I can only assume it’s because they don’t understand how to use properly code (or use the built in feature) or they’re doing it specifically to stand out. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2017, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-boxes-as-hyperlinks/789946/24 "2017-06-29T02:33:03Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > Like this, nothing special just some recoding and rewording, but when someone does this, it makes it difficult to use the quote button on their post. If someone were to quote this post, even though it’s written by me (Joey P), the first line would be “Quoth Sunny Daze” and it may be attributed by other readers. > > But, in general, I just never understood why people would go through the trouble. It’s like when I see a link that’s the wrong shade of blue and realize that the poster manually changed the color. Why? In both cases I can only assume it’s because they don’t understand how to use properly code (or use the built in feature) or they’re doing it specifically to stand out. Some people hate the fact that the quote box includes the attribution, and think it should properly go outside. We have a lot of grammar/style pedants here, and this is a bugaboo for a small portion of them. I think a compromise would be to have the top of the quote box have a clearly different background color and be set off with a bit of a border. I’ve seen that on other boards. Unfortunately, the IT here has no intention of changing the defaults. And, well, 99.9% of Dopers are fine with things the way they are. If they wouldn’t change the smileys back when most Dopers either didn’t care or preferred the old ones, I doubt they’ll change anything for the 0.1%. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2017, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-boxes-as-hyperlinks/789946/25 "2017-06-29T02:39:21Z")
Also, I learned the hard way that I am required to work around the issue. It is my responsibility under the rules to have deleted the “Quoth Sunny Daze” in the post, lest it come off like the following came from them. I believe that may have been my first mod note. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2017, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-boxes-as-hyperlinks/789946/26 "2017-06-29T03:03:24Z")
I want to use it for Trump tweets. For example: > [@](#): > > The #AmazonWashingtonPost, sometimes referred to as the guardian of Amazon not paying internet taxes (which they should) is FAKE NEWS! By putting [Quote = Trump] , it looks like [QUOTE=Trump] The #AmazonWashingtonPost, sometimes referred to as the guardian of Amazon not paying internet taxes (which they should) is FAKE NEWS! [/QUOTE] but I’d like it to read “Tweet” or something instead “Originally Posted”. I think I’ve seen people do that. Anyone know how? ETA: Thank you **Joey P** and **BigT** for explaining the “Quoth” issue. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2017, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-boxes-as-hyperlinks/789946/27 "2017-06-29T03:21:50Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > but I’d like it to read “Tweet” or something instead “Originally Posted”. I think I’ve seen people do that. Anyone know how? Sure, but you have to do it manually. I used to do this for fun. [noparse] > [@](#): > > **Donald J. Trump** originally tweeted: > blah blah blah covfefe [/noparse] yields > [@](#): > > **Donald J. Trump** originally tweeted: > blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah covfefe And if you wonder how I showed the code, I put everything inside of [noparse][noparse][/noparse][/noparse] tags. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2017, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-boxes-as-hyperlinks/789946/28 "2017-06-29T03:26:47Z")
Just do what you did in the first one (no “=name”) and type “Originally Tweeted by Trump” or anything else you want as the first line of the quote. You’d have to type it out and bold it yourself, but you could make it say anything and look however you want. ETA: no idea how it took me five minutes to type that. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2017, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-boxes-as-hyperlinks/789946/29 "2017-06-29T04:52:03Z")
I feel a little foolish now… Thank you. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-boxes-as-hyperlinks/789946.md?page=1)