helping ecoke get quotes working thread - ignore

[BattleOfYakima]

This is my original text. Quote one of these three sentences. And reply to it.

 

[proavia]

All three - using the "Reply With Quote" button at bottom right of your post
Notice this one has a little blue icon next to your name. Clicking on it will take you to your original post.

This is my original text. Quote one of these three sentences. And reply to it.

Quoting one of your 3 sentences - by wrapping your sentence in quote tags - see next line
[quote]This is my original text.[/quote]

This is my original text.

Quoting same sentence as above - but adding your name in the first quote tag - see next line
[quote=BattleOfYakima]This is my original text.[/quote]

This is my original text.

 

[Ecoke]

This is my original text. Quote one of these three sentences. And reply to it.

Hmmm...still confused as all I get is the QUOTE notation...no fancy quote box like both of you do!

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What the....ok..it worked..but not until I hit post...hmmm....no clue why it didn't work before...as no matter what I did I never got the fancy quote box...

 

[proavia]

Yup, it won't show until you press the Post button - or the Go Advanced button to preview the post.

 

[Ecoke]

But...I've tried it previously on posts...it never worked...what am I doing differently?

 

[BattleOfYakima]

i've messed it up before by accidentally deleting one of the 4 required brackets

This is my original text.[/quote <---notice missing end bracket causes failure

thanks for the help proavia