# testing interesting quote-link

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-interesting-quote-link/312431>\
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**Created:** [July 14, 2005, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-interesting-quote-link/312431 "2005-07-14T00:12:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-interesting-quote-link/312431/1 "2005-07-14T00:12:24Z")

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[In this post](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=6356575), **FinnAgain** manages to make a link out of whole quote. This is cool! I’m trying to figure out how.

This seems to work:[

> [@Google](#):
>
> This is Google.

]([http://www.google.com/](http://www.google.com/))

```php
[
[quote=Google]
This is Google.
[/quote]
](http://www.google.com/)

```

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**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-interesting-quote-link/312431/2 "2005-07-14T00:15:37Z")

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And I can quote-link another post:[

> [@Pleonast](#):
>
> [url=http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=6356575]In this post]([http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=6364008](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=6364008)), **FinnAgain** manages to make a link out of whole quote. This is cool! I’m trying to figure out how.

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**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-interesting-quote-link/312431/3 "2005-07-14T23:14:22Z")

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I asked this once myself [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=298860). The answer seemed to be “It’s a vBulletin bug”

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**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2005, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-interesting-quote-link/312431/4 "2005-07-15T15:39:36Z")

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Interesting, but that seems to be a different effect. I’m fully enclosing the quote inside the url tags, as opposed to just enclosing the opening quote tag.

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**Author:** ![flight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbce88/32.png) [@flight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flight)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2005, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-interesting-quote-link/312431/5 "2005-07-15T20:00:50Z")

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I noticed that too when I saw **FinnAgain** do it. I will have to us it some time.