How do you add quotes?

[MT Hazard]

How do you add quotes from other peoples entries ? the ones in a purple box with 'quote' on the top.

Thanks much

[llearch n'n'daCorna]

You could click on the help link at the top of the page, that would take you to a page that shows you all the other things you can do.

Specifically for quotes, if you click on the "quote" button on the right of someone's post, it does this:

How do you add quotes from other peoples entries ? the ones in a purple box with 'quote' on the top.

Thanks much

Neat, huh?

[MT Hazard]

Thanks, I really should have looked around more. Its good that people can offer advice without getting sarcastic because someone (like me) wasn't paying attention.

[Darkmoon]

I almost did... trust me, I was this close...

[komissarmakarov]

Suuure you were, Comrade, sure you were

[Darkmoon]

Yes, well it looks bad for an Admin to post in a thread "dear lords, ya retard, why don't you just LOOK at the forum before attempting to post"...

[Leafar]

in welcome threads i always tell people to pm me whatever, whenever they need, have a question, anything at all...
but NO i want THOUSANDS of people telling me the EXACT same thing!

[bill]

If you need to add a quote from, say, another site, just use the

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[quote] and [/quote] tags.

[Aridas]

And if you want to be fancy, add a space after the first quote tag (but not the end tag) like so

quote author=Daddykins

will end up like

NO VERONICA! STOP USING MY CREDIT CARDS!

I know you can add a link to another topic too, but i'm too lazy to remember the correct format. You could also add date, but I have no idea what format the date for quotes is in.

[bill]

Oh, and you can use the code tags to prevent parsing anything, with the exception of code tags.

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[quote=Bob's Discount Furniture] [/quote]

[Aridas]

Oh, and you can use the code tags to prevent parsing anything, with the exception of code tags.

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[quote=Bob's Discount Furniture]

[/quote]
That'd be

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[quote author=Bob's Discount Furniture] [/quote]

[bill]

Oops. That's how the other forum software worked, but I guess this one's different.