How do you quote someone from your thread?

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Hello:

I feel a bit ridiculous asking this question after all this time, but…

How do you include one of those yellow quote boxes in your discussion (when you want to single out and reply to something that someone has said earlier in the thread)? I see the “insert quote” button above. Does the quote simply go between the boxes that appear?

Thanks as always,

Mark

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The whole message from that person is inserted into the reply box for you when you hit the quote button…you can edit it from there or just reply to it- but their entire message is there.

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If you don’t want the entire message you can do it manually. This works with most browsers: Use your mouse to highlight the text you want to quote, right click the text and select COPY from the menu. Right click in an area of your response and select PASTE from the menu. Then enclose the text in quotation tags. It would look something like this in your message:

[xuote]How do you include one of those yellow quote boxes in your discussion[/xuote]

I had to intentionally misspell “quote” to get the tags to show up in the message. The [xuote] goes before the quoted section and [/xuote] goes after, but be sure to spell “quote” correctly.

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Any idea as to why when I try and quote, I get the HTML coding, but not the yellow box? I just click quote, with no alterations made…

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What type of computer is it? Mac or PC, what operating system and what browser are you using?

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PC, using XP, and Opera8 as the browser. I’m thinking, it could be Opera?

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OK, this time using Firefox

edited to add:
Yippe! it worked. OK, so the problem is Opera…(or forum software which is not compatible with Opera. Pity, it’s probably the best browser around)

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Glad to see that you sorted it out. I’ll argue Firefox is better than Opera, but I haven’t bothered downloading Opera since Opera 5 or so…

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Thanks Bgrigg! Opera8 is much better than 5, which I agree had too many short-comings. Opera8 has several advantages. The software used by newspapers etc to stop you copying pictures from their websites to your harddrive doesn’t work with Opera. However, you also don’t get the pop-up info box for the pictures either. Also, it’s very user-friendly, and comes with a fantastic IRC client (better than mIRC). However, some websites are not Opera friendly, and sadly, Finescale is one of them… As for Firefox, well, I’m using it now, and no websites are not Firefox friendly.

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I use CrazyBrowser looks like IE but its not it has some neat toys squadron wont alow right clicking on there web site well all i have to do is go into my options and disable scripes and that alows me to to copy and past text and pictures i have had no problems with and has no 3 party crap inbeded in it and its free the whole program is small around 64K everyone ive told about and used it love it.

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I used to use Crazybrowser until Firefox came out. Crazybrowser is better than IE but is still susceptible to the same security flaws.

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That’s because (as far as I am aware) Crazybrowser isn’t a browser in itself, but rather an overlay which uses the IE browser “engine”.

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And you’re right, it’s more than just an overlay, but that’s 95% correct! Crazybrowser got me hooked on tabbed browsing.