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tri_joel · Joined: 03 Jul 2007 Posts: 629 Location: Northern Virginia

I'm an idiot. When quoting from another post, how do you get the quote frame to say who you are quoting?

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tri_joel · Joined: 03 Jul 2007 Posts: 629 Location: Northern Virginia

**ecrabb** · Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2009 3:49 pm Post subject:

Yeah, and when you're in advanced edit mode, you can select a block of text - say a paragraph you copied and pasted from another site - and click the "quote" button to automagically wrap the tag around it. Then, you can add ="whatever" to the quote tag so it goes from:

dturco · Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2009 4:02 pm Post subject:

[quote="ecrabb"]

**ecrabb** · Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2009 4:14 pm Post subject:

Just edit your post and take out the highlighted quote tag, and everything should pop into place.

All the tags in the form software are markup - they work just like HTML. So, there's always an opening and closing tag. They're just like parentheses - there are always two. The close is just the open with a slash.

**ecrabb** · Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2009 4:17 pm Post subject:

Oh, and don't forget, guys... You can always go to the Post Testing Area to play around. Post whatever you want - it doesn't show up anywhere and it gets nuked after 48 hours. Good place to learn on posts that nobody will pay any attention to.

SC

**kal** · Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2009 4:42 pm Post subject:

**AnalogRocks** · Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2009 4:43 pm Post subject:

lol

**ecrabb** · Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2009 4:52 pm Post subject:

Yep, Kal... Won't be long and we'll be asking for keys to the car and staying out all night.

SC

tri_joel · Joined: 03 Jul 2007 Posts: 629 Location: Northern Virginia