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I can't quote!
Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2006 8:40 am
by Paco Del Stinko
I must display my stupidity for all to see. Although someone was nice enough to mention in a PM how to use quotes properly, I am unable to turn Quote: into Joe Mama said: What simple procedure am I not performing? What is wrong with me? What?
I'll be glad to delete this post afterwards if I am the only doofus unable to do what any 3 year old probably can. Thank you for your time and patience and I don't blame anyone if you shake your head and walk away. Peace.
Re: I can't quote!
Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2006 8:44 am
by king_arthur
Paco Del Stinko wrote:
[ quote="Paco Del Stinko" ] I must display my stupidity for all to see. Although someone was nice enough to mention in a PM how to use quotes properly, I am unable to turn Quote: into Joe Mama said: What simple procedure am I not performing? What is wrong with me? What?
I'll be glad to delete this post afterwards if I am the only doofus unable to do what any 3 year old probably can. Thank you for your time and patience and I don't blame anyone if you shake your head and walk away. Peace.
Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2006 8:59 am
by Paco Del Stinko
I can do this -
What is wrong with me?
I can't change the bold word
Quote: above the dialog box into a bold name of whom I'm quoting. Like, into
Bill Community wrote:
Thanks again, esp. KA, and if everyone lines up I'll gladly run the gauntlet.
Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2006 9:30 am
by a bebop a rebop
After the word quote in the initial tag, you have to put an equals sign and then the name you're quoting in quotation marks. See King Arthur's example above, minus the spaces.
Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2006 9:36 am
by Paco Del Stinko
Paco del Stinko wrote: I am the stupidiest person alive
Must be true as I'm sure that I read it somewhere. Thanks again, and I apologize for being such a dolt. Instead of deleting this, I will leave it up as a badge of stupidity, hopefully one that I won't wear again too soon! Thanks.
Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2006 11:05 am
by HeuristicsInc
Doesn't the big "Quote" button on the right hand side of every post do it automatically for you???
-bill
Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2006 11:28 am
by a bebop a rebop
some jagoff wrote:it doesn't do this
Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2006 11:39 am
by Paco Del Stinko
HeuristicsInc wrote:Doesn't the big "Quote" button on the right hand side of every post do it automatically for you???
-bill
It does now. Thanks. I've asked some elementary questons here at Songfight! and have always received excellent assistance. I am somewhat embarrassed by this, but appreciate the help.
Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2006 5:04 pm
by fluffy
pigfucker supreme wrote:But it gives you a template showing how!
Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2006 5:52 pm
by king_arthur
Actually, when you're in the "reply" screen (in Netscape, at least) and move the cursor over the "Quote" button, it does NOT give you a template for this particular trick. The URL button does, the font colour and size ones do, but the Quote one doesn't tell you about the "=name" trick.
Charles (KA)
Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2006 5:57 pm
by fluffy
Er, what I meant was if you click on the 'quote' button from another message then it fills out the reply form showing you how it's done. I didn't mean the quote button that's part of the reply form.
Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 2:08 pm
by Mostess
Paco Del Stinko wrote: I am somewhat embarrassed by this, but appreciate the help.
That's what the "Edit Post" buttons are for. Go back in time and change your question to embarrass everyone else.
Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 2:08 pm
by Spud
...maybe he doesn't know how to do that. *ducks*