Quoting Posts

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Sample Post

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Sample PostClick XX to give the contents of the php code box in your reply posting box.



Put your reply underneath and post it.

As you can see, it gets more complicated the more you quote.

Even more complicated with mutliple quoted issues within posts.

It takes a little bit of time to get use to it. But once you do, you find it is a great tool.

So, please learn to use it. Not combox of colors, bold, italics and on and on. Those are incredibly confusing and everyone gets lost as to who is saying what where.

This method tells you who is saying what when.

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When you want to quote multiple posts, even when some are in other threads, click http://www.christiantalkzone.net/forum/images/buttons/multiquote_off.gif on each post you want quoted, it will turn to a red background, and then click Reply in the thread where you want the reply to show.

Make sure you click them again if you change your mind, or those quotes will show in the next reply you try.

[CTZonEdit]

So what is the easiest method to multi quote when replying to one post?

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So what is the easiest method to multi quote when replying to one post?
If you means multiple quotes and reply in one quoted post, you have to make sure each issue is shown as a single quote, as in:



One
Two

Three

And then add your reply to it. Repeat for every block throughout the post.

If you mean quoting from multiple posts, click the Multi-Quote for each post you want to quote, click reply to in the thread you want the reply to appear, and then deal with each quote block as normal.

Remember, if is material in the post you don't want to include, carefully go through and delete what you don't want, making sure you get BOTH the quote tags for that part included. There will be ONE opening set of brackets and one closing set with a / in it. The tags stack up on each end of a quote block, so only delete one tag, one each end for one deleted quote. And make sure it is the right tag in the right place.

Use Preview to check yourself, and repair as needed.

Also, sometimes you want to break down a quoted block and reply within. To get the quotes right, delete the very last tag of that block, one with the/ in it. Then add quote, with brackets, at the end the first part of the quoted material where you want to add your comment. Shown as follows. Or click quote at the end, no highlight, and delete the first tag.


[/QUOTE]

After that, work through the block highlighting each separate part and clicking the quote tag.

I will use this post as an example, in the next two posts to try to illustrate may point.

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Clicking quote gives you this.


So what is the easiest method to multi quote when replying to one post?
If you means multiple quotes and reply in one quoted post, you have to make sure each issue is shown as a single quote, as in:



One
Two

Three

And then add your reply to it. Repeat for every block throughout the post.

If you mean quoting from multiple posts, click the Multi-Quote for each post you want to quote, click reply to in the thread you want the reply to appear, and then deal with each quote block as normal.

Remember, if is material in the post you don't want to include, carefully go through and delete what you don't want, making sure you get BOTH the quote tags for that part included. There will be ONE opening set of brackets and one closing set with a / in it. The tags stack up on each end of a quote block, so only delete one tag, one each end for one deleted quote. And make sure it is the right tag in the right place.

Use Preview to check yourself, and repair as needed.

Also, sometimes you want to break down a quoted block and reply within. To get the quotes right, delete the very last tag of that block, one with the/ in it. Then add quote, with brackets, at the end the first part of the quoted material where you want to add your comment.

After that, work through the block highlighting each separate part and clicking the quote tag.

I will use this post as an example, in the next two posts to try to illustrate may point.

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To break this down for comments, first I delete the very last quote tag, then I add an end tag at X1 and add comment.

Then I break the block apart by highlighting and adding comment.s
So what is the easiest method to multi quote when replying to one post?
If you means multiple quotes and reply in one quoted post, you have to make sure each issue is shown as a single quote, as in:



One
Two

Three

And then add your reply to it. Repeat for every block throughout the post. X1
Comment


If you mean quoting from multiple posts, click the Multi-Quote for each post you want to quote, click reply to in the thread you want the reply to appear, and then deal with each quote block as normal.


I quoted and now add comment.

Remember, if is material in the post you don't want to include, carefully go through and delete what you don't want, making sure you get BOTH the quote tags for that part included. There will be ONE opening set of brackets and one closing set with a / in it. The tags stack up on each end of a quote block, so only delete one tag, one each end for one deleted quote. And make sure it is the right tag in the right place.


Again.

Use Preview to check yourself, and repair as needed.


Again.

Also, sometimes you want to break down a quoted block and reply within. To get the quotes right, delete the very last tag of that block, one with the/ in it. Then add quote, with brackets, at the end the first part of the quoted material where you want to add your comment.

After that, work through the block highlighting each separate part and clicking the quote tag.


Again.
I will use this post as an example, in the next two posts to try to illustrate may point.

Hope that helps.

[CTZonEdit]

OK. That is what I been doing. I thought there was something I was missing to make it easier.

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OK. That is what I been doing. I thought there was something I was missing to make it easier.

I wish there was.

Before I added the Nested Quotes to show tags beyond 2 deep, I use to copy over and do it that way. It showed the quote boxes and everything. Which was nice.

But that was too hard for too many, so I added the nested quotes and the copy over doesn't work correctly anymore.

But this gives the name quoted and a link to where quoted from, which is much better.

[Jessie]

I've got to take some time and learn this. was thinking about quotes and how you all do it the other day.

I just hadnt gotten to it.