Partial quotes
Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2016 1:14 amMost of you know that if you click the Quote button on a post, your reply will start off with a full quote of the previous post.
Something like
In the editor, what you see looks like:
Now, you can simply type the special commands yourself:
This would show in a message like this:
This trick is useful if you want to divide a long post and reply to selected parts of it.
If you see brackets and commands in your post, either you didn't match opening an closing commands, or you have the little box below the editor checked ("Disable BBCode"). That check box must be empty for these special codes to work.
Something like
Greenlake wrote:Most of you know that if you click the Quote button on a post, your reply will start off with a full quote of the previous post.
In the editor, what you see looks like:
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Most of you know that if you click the Quote button on a post, your reply will start off with a full quote of the previous post.
Something like
[quote="Greenlake"]Most of you know that if you click the Quote button on a post, your reply will start off with a full quote of the previous post.[/quote]
In the edito....
Now, you can simply type the special commands yourself:
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[quote="Somebody"]some text to be quoted[/quote]
This would show in a message like this:
Somebody wrote:some text to be quoted
This trick is useful if you want to divide a long post and reply to selected parts of it.
If you see brackets and commands in your post, either you didn't match opening an closing commands, or you have the little box below the editor checked ("Disable BBCode"). That check box must be empty for these special codes to work.