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dumb question re: [quote]

Post by Fury » Wed Mar 22, 2006 7:39 am

:oops: I'm sure there is a real simple answer for this, but as I am blind in one eye and cant see with the other, I couldnt see this reffered to ( I promise I did look):

When quoting someone else's replys, I generally use the
button , highlited over the text that I have copied and pasted into my reply.
as an example
but, this leaves the "quote" highlited. How do I do as others, and have :
such and such wrote:
at the top of the comment

Thanks
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Re: dumb question re: [quote]

Post by Fang » Wed Mar 22, 2006 7:55 am

Do it in the following way

[ quote="Username"]This is the quotable text[/quote]

Just lose the space between the first square bracket and the "quote" part
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Re: dumb question re: [quote]

Post by tim_81coupe » Wed Mar 22, 2006 8:32 am

Fury wrote::oops: I'm sure there is a real simple answer for this, but as I am blind in one eye and cant see with the other, I couldnt see this reffered to ( I promise I did look):

When quoting someone else's replys, I generally use the
button , highlited over the text that I have copied and pasted into my reply.
as an example
but, this leaves the "quote" highlited. How do I do as others, and have :
such and such wrote:
at the top of the comment

Thanks
Or you can press the little quote button next to the post, and from there you can edit out what you want. Theoretically you could change what the person said, but it would be bleeding obvious.
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Re: dumb question re: [quote]

Post by Suba » Sun May 28, 2006 4:16 pm

tim_81coupe wrote:
Fury wrote::oops: I'm sure there is a real simple answer for this, but as I am blind in one eye and cant see with the other, I couldnt see this reffered to ( I promise I did look):

When quoting someone else's replys, I generally use the
button , highlited over the text that I have copied and pasted into my reply.
but, this leaves the "quote" highlited. How do I do as others, and have :
such and such wrote:
at the top of the comment

Thanks
Or you can press the little quote button next to the post, and from there you can edit out what you want. Theoretically you could change what the person said, but it would be bleeding obvious.OH REALLY TIM U EXPEXT US TO DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT I DONT THINK SO.
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Post by tim_81coupe » Sun May 28, 2006 11:49 pm

Mike you're 2 months behind the 8-ball on that one... :lol:
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Post by Fury » Mon May 29, 2006 10:42 am

tim_81coupe wrote:Mike you're 2 months behind the 8-ball on that one... :lol:
At least it wasn't me, I got it first time... :)

Sounds like everyone who had this problem is testing here... but there again , it's probably a good thing...
Chris :cool:

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WRX EJ20G and box , TD05 Turbo and 4.111 running gear.
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Post by Suba » Tue May 30, 2006 8:39 pm

so you didnt notice that I eddited the quote tim ?

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Post by tim_81coupe » Wed May 31, 2006 12:22 am

Suba wrote:so you didnt notice that I eddited the quote tim ? NO I WOULDN'T NOTICE THAT HIDING AWAY THERE MISSPELLED IN RED WRITING :P :P

Mike.
Didn't actually quite understand what you wrote either Mike... :lol:
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