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A quick word on quotes

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Yo, fellow ghers. Our good friend, Mr greeneyed, is a tad pissed off with the state of affairs regarding improper use of the quote function in the user control panel. So, that being the case, I have decided to put together this guide on using the quote function. This assumes you want to check the code as it appears in your text editing box.

Module 1: HTML. The forum software uses HTML in the processing of your posts. A big part of HTML is that changes made to text are enclosed in open and close tags. For example, if you want to make a word appear in bold, you put a pair of tags around the word to be made bold. In this case, you would use <b>word</b>. Naturally, if this was to work here, then you would not be able to see the code used. What I have done is to use a < instead of a [.

Module 2: Quotes. To quote a person using phpBB, you type/copy the text and surround it by <quote> text </quote>. Of course, you use the square brackets instead of the triangular ones above.

Module 3: Technicalities. Tags have to be accurate. For example, opening the tag as <quote> only to close it with the mispelling of </qoute> will not work and you will see all code (as you can see my quote is not actually quoted!). A second common error is to try to use two functions at once, such as making a quote bold. Here you need to make sure that you go <quote> <bold> text </bold> </quote> rather than
[bold] text
[/quote] [/bold].

Direct input from the man himself here:
greeneyed wrote:If you are incapable of working all this out... then don't use the quote function! And, more particularly, don't try and add bold in the middle of quotes! And then if you see someone has stuffed it up, then don't quote somone else's stuffed up quoting!
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Re: A quick word on quotes

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TiTTieS_[CNTDN] wrote:Yo, fellow ghers. Our good friend, Mr greeneyed, is a tad pissed off with the state of affairs regarding improper use of the quote function in the user control panel. So, that being the case, I have decided to put together this guide on using the quote function. This assumes you want to check the code as it appears in your text editing box.
Module 1: HTML. The forum software uses HTML in the processing of your posts. A big part of HTML is that changes made to text are enclosed in open and close tags. For example, if you want to make a word appear in bold, you put a pair of tags around the word to be made bold. In this case, you would use <b>word</b>. Naturally, if this was to work here, then you would not be able to see the code used. What I have done is to use a < instead of a [. [/quote]

Module 2: Quotes. To quote a person using phpBB, you type/copy the text and surround it by <quote> text </quote>.
Of course, you use the square brackets instead of the triangular ones above.
Module 3: Technicalities. Tags have to be accurate. For example, opening the tag as <quote> only to close it with the mispelling of </qoute> will not work and you will see all code (as you can see my quote is not actually quoted!). A second common error is to try to use two functions at once, such as making a quote bold. Here you need to make sure that you go <quote> <bold> text </bold> </quote> rather than
[bold] text
[/quote] [/bold].
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greeneyed wrote:If you are incapable of working all this out... then don't use the quote function! And, more particularly, don't try and add bold in the middle of quotes! And then if you see someone has stuffed it up, then don't quote somone else's stuffed up quoting!

well said.
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Banned. :lol:
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greeneyed wrote:Banned. :lol:
The moderators at least should be able to work it out by now!
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Re: A quick word on quotes

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[quote"Schifty"]
TiTTieS_[CNTDN] wrote:Yo, fellow ghers. Our good friend, Mr greeneyed, is a tad pissed off with the state of affairs regarding improper use of the quote function in the user control panel. So, that being the case, I have decided to put together this guide on using the quote function. This assumes you want to check the code as it appears in your text editing box.
Module 1: HTML. The forum software uses HTML in the processing of your posts. A big part of HTML is that changes made to text are enclosed in open and close tags. For example, if you want to make a word appear in bold, you put a pair of tags around the word to be made bold. In this case, you would use <b>word</b>. Naturally, if this was to work here, then you would not be able to see the code used. What I have done is to use a < instead of a [. [/quote]

Module 2: Quotes. To quote a person using phpBB, you type/copy the text and surround it by <quote> text </quote>.
Of course, you use the square brackets instead of the triangular ones above.
Module 3: Technicalities. Tags have to be accurate. For example, opening the tag as <quote> only to close it with the mispelling of </qoute> will not work and you will see all code (as you can see my quote is not actually quoted!). A second common error is to try to use two functions at once, such as making a quote bold. Here you need to make sure that you go <quote> <bold> text </bold> </quote> rather than
[bold] text
[/quote] [/bold].
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from the man himself here:
greeneyed wrote:If you are incapable of working all this out... then don't use the quote function! And, more particularly, don't try and add bold in the middle of quotes! And then if you see someone has stuffed it up, then don't quote somone else's stuffed up quoting!

well said.
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