# Testing horizontal rule **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [August 6, 2000, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-horizontal-rule/28343 "2000-08-06T18:42:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [August 6, 2000, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-horizontal-rule/28343/1 "2000-08-06T18:42:45Z")
I’ve noticed some posts have a non-quote horizontal rule in them, and I’m guessing that it’s due to closing an unopened quote, with a [[sup][/sup]/quote] tag. Testing this theory: [/quote] Can it be used multiple times? [/quote] What if there’s > [@](#): > > a complete quote? Can I put in another one? [/quote] ---
**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:** [August 6, 2000, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-horizontal-rule/28343/2 "2000-08-06T18:44:22Z")
Cool, yet another trick we can do. I hope that if they ever fix these “bugs”, that they implement them as regular features. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Do\_Re\_Mi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e95f7d/32.png) [@Do\_Re\_Mi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Do_Re_Mi)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2000, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-horizontal-rule/28343/3 "2000-08-06T19:49:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Chronos \* > \*\*I’ve noticed some posts have a non-quote horizontal rule in them, and I’m guessing that it’s due to closing an unopened quote, with a [[sup][/sup]/quote] tag. Testing this theory: Can it be used multiple times? [/quote] What if there’s > [@](#): > > a complete quote? Can I put in another one? [/quote] \*\* [/QUOTE] You’ve been here a while. Guess there’s always something new to learn. ---
**Author:** ![evilbeth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/evilbeth/32/2268_2.png) [@evilbeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evilbeth)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2000, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-horizontal-rule/28343/4 "2000-08-07T07:56:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Chronos \* > \*\*I’ve noticed some posts have a non-quote horizontal rule in them, and I’m guessing that it’s due to closing an unopened quote, with a [[sup][/sup]/quote] tag. Testing this theory: Can it be used multiple times? [/quote] What if there’s > [@](#): > > a complete quote? Can I put in another one? [/quote] \*\* [/QUOTE] So you just do this [/quote] and it gives you a line? ---
**Author:** ![evilbeth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/evilbeth/32/2268_2.png) [@evilbeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evilbeth)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2000, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-horizontal-rule/28343/5 "2000-08-07T07:58:20Z")
That [/quote] is [/quote] way [/quote] cool! [/quote] ---
**Author:** ![Silo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@Silo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silo)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2000, 9:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-horizontal-rule/28343/6 "2000-08-07T09:46:43Z")
[/quote] lines… [/quote] lines… [/quote] lines… [/quote] BUT WHAT DO THEY MEAN!?!?!?!?!?!? ---
**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:** [August 8, 2000, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-horizontal-rule/28343/7 "2000-08-08T07:16:50Z")
Come to think of it, an end code tag should work, too… ```auto Like that. [quote] Of course, if you do it that way, ``` You should be able to embed it in a quote. [/quote] . The real test, I suppose, would be overlapping the two: > [@](#): > > Quote started > > ```auto > > Both active > > ``` Quote terminated ```auto Code terminated. Let's see about this... ``` ---
**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:** [August 8, 2000, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-horizontal-rule/28343/8 "2000-08-08T07:20:00Z")
Interesting, it seems that a [[sup][/sup]/code] tag will terminate a [[sup][/sup]quote] tag, but not vice-versa. Chalk it up to yet another oddity of vB. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2000, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-horizontal-rule/28343/9 "2000-08-08T12:18:38Z")
Ahem. For the record, it was I who discovered the utility of the [/quote] tag as a horizontal rule, thanks to a mistake by Mr. Zambezi in [Being a socialist in america](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?postid=587664#post587664), which I illustrated in post #587664. (The link should take you straight to the post.) I use the technique often to separate portions of posts, or to block off quoted segements other than quotes from posters. ---
**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:** [August 8, 2000, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-horizontal-rule/28343/10 "2000-08-08T18:56:06Z")
Credit where it’s due, of course, Lib. I hadn’t realized that anyone else was doing this deliberately; I tip my hat. ---
**Author:** ![barflyer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dc4da7/32.png) [@barflyer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/barflyer)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2000, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-horizontal-rule/28343/11 "2000-08-12T04:50:54Z")
Is that where the Dorm Mother makes you keep one foot on the floor at all times a girls in the room? ---
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2000, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-horizontal-rule/28343/12 "2000-08-12T06:51:11Z")
Look at the printable version of this thread. Ick.