This seems complex for even me....a bonafide smarty pants. Ok, let's give it a go.
Wow, I got that by doing this [QUOTE=Barry]Posted in reply to the post by Barry:
So Long and Thanks for All the Fish!
This site is now closed permanently to new posts.Click anywhere but the link to dismiss overlay!
Real Name: (not displayed to guest users)
Join Date: Jul 29, 2011
This seems complex for even me....a bonafide smarty pants. Ok, let's give it a go.
Wow, I got that by doing this [QUOTE=Barry]Posted in reply to the post by Barry:OK, let me try again.... Quotes are enclosed in a matching set a of tags enclosed in square brackets. I'll use curly brackets "{ }" instead of square brackets "[ ]" so as not to trigger actual quoting in this post outside of the examples.
The basic quote format is {quote}some text to quote{/quote}. Note the forward slash "/" in the close quote tag (remember, you'll use square brackets rather than curly ones).
So the above sample quote would look like this:
some text to quote
This is what you will get if you just highlight some (pasted in?) text and click the icon.
To add the poster's name, just add it with a preceding "=" like this: {quote=Barry}some text to quote{/quote} which yields:
Barry wrote:
some text to quote
Then, to add a link to the post that the quote came from, add the postid preceeded by a semicolon, like this: {quote=Barry;61774 }some text to quote{/quote} which yields:
Barry wrote:
some text to quote
Note the which is a link to the original message. This is the form that uses. You can find the postid by clicking on the post number (ie: #1 ) in the thread on the website.
Gratitude expressed by:
Real Name: (not displayed to guest users)
Join Date: Jul 29, 2011