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This has the potential to be useful to many but it may also be disastrous.
I have installed a plugin that allows you to quote others' posts.
Unfortunately, it uses HTML and so may look weird to those not familiar with it.
All you need to do is click "quote" under the post you intend to quote, delete the non-relevant parts of the quoted part, then write your post.
Experiment with it in THIS thread and see what you think. If this does not make sense to people, we will put it aside. A cleaner solution will likely soon be available with no scary HTML.
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This has the potential to be useful to many but it may also be disastrous.
Seems easy to use as an alternative to cutting & pasting the text.
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Nobugsonme - 9 seconds ago »
All you need to do is click "quote" under the post you intend to quote, delete the non-relevant parts of the quoted part, then write your post.
Deleting the non-relevant parts of the other person's post is a key step.
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Hi Doug,
I think you deleted the code that was surrounding your quote from my post.
If you do that, it's not obviously a quote.
Delete just sentences, ignore anything surrounded by < > carats.
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Nobugsonme - 9 seconds ago »
Delete just sentences, ignore anything surrounded by < > carats.
And you end up with a block quote as above.
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I think this may be too tricky for those not familiar with HTML. But I will give others a chance to try it and weigh in.
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belle72
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Nobugsonme - 8 hours ago »
I think this may be too tricky for those not familiar with HTML.I hope you leave it, or some version. It would simplify who (and what specific statements) you are responding to. Thanks Nobugs!
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Hi belle72,
If people don't find it confusing, it will definitely be a big help! However, lots of folks are not familiar with code and if people use it incorrectly, it can make a big sloppy mess out of a simple post.
I know there's a need for quoting. If this one does not work out, another should be available soon.
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To try it out, click "quote" under the post that you actually want to quote from.
If you want to quote this post by me, you click quote below my post.
Then remove the parts of the original quote you do not need. This is essential. (Quoting the entire post will be annoying and unnecessary.)
Please experiment in this thread.
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Blue_Ox
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Wed Aug 13 2008 6:23:15
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Nobugsonme - 1 day ago »
.just trying it out.
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Blue_Ox,
As long as you just wanted the dot, you did good! ;-) -
Nobugsonme - 2 weeks ago »
Quoting the entire post will be annoying and unnecessary.
Please experiment in this thread.Ah just found this thread, definitely helpful. Thanks for the PM Nobugsonme. I wouldn't have known about » though I still don't know whether you need them for an anchor without a quote. I'll have to see, over in the Thanatus flavidus Simon thread.
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Just to be sure, here's a sample from the spider post:
Thanat<i>u</i>s flavidus Simon here .
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OK, but the italics aren't working, let's try italics or <I> capitals in the tag </I> ...?
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OK I'm going to give up on italics, bold, etc. for the time being and use * for emphasis instead.
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death2allbbs
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glitch - 1 day ago »
Just to be sure, here's a sample from the spider post:
Thanat<i>u</i>s flavidus Simon here .Nobugs, I didn't know that other than yourself, that we could also encase links the way that glitch encased the http://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id234460 link inside the word "here."
So then, what other HTML features do you have enabled, even though it lools like you don't have the italics feature enabled?
Also, in addition to the post-quote feature that you enabled, could you enable the regular quote feature so that other things can be quote-formatted with the forum's software other than post quotes?
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You can use HTML in your forum posts.
Tags should be enclosed in carats < />
em = italics
str = bold
a href= " " for a link(To others reading this-- if this is all greek to you, I can't go into more detail. If I type it out, it will just become code, if you know what I mean.)
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Nobugsonme - 6 months ago »
glitch,
the test post option isn't something built in but I will look into it.
thanks for the suggestion!And... the "quote" function is working again.
(It was down after the software upgrade last week.)
Still working on the IE6 issues...
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hatessbugss
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Wed Aug 26 2009 17:43:11
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Nobugsonme - 1 year ago »
This has the potential to be useful to many but it may also be disastrous.
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