need help with multi-quoting

[LivestockDoc]

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There doesn't seem to be a help file for this forum, and I can't figure out how to break up someone's post into parts so I can make specific comments. How do you do that and still get all the quoted parts to show up in the darkened boxes?

 

[tpad40]

One way to do it is quote the first person and copy it. Then go back and quote the second person and paste in the first quoted person.

Did that make any sense ?

 

[redsteven]

Well, the first thing is that you need to understand is how the BB code works.

I will show u some examples, but if I use the actual code in the examples, then it will just format the text, and I won't be able to show u what I mean. So, instead of using brackets like this [ ] I will instead use greater than/less than brackets for my example.


For example, if I want to underline something, I use the <u> tag. And then, I close it with </u>. So everything in between those two tags gets underlined.
It's important to remember that you NEED to close your tags buy repeating it with a slash in front of it. Otherwise your text will not get formatted correctly.
I quoted your message below, but have replaced the brackets with greater than/less than tags, so you can see how exactly I would break up your quote.

This is how your quote looks originally to me:

<QUOTE=LivestockDoc;7902217>There doesn't seem to be a help file for this forum, and I can't figure out how to break up someone's post into parts so I can make specific comments. How do you do that and still get all the quoted parts to show up in the darkened boxes?</QUOTE>

Now, here's how I'm gonna break it up:

<QUOTE=LivestockDoc;7902217>There doesn't seem to be a help file for this forum, and I can't figure out how to break up someone's post into parts so I can make specific comments.</quote>

After your first sentence, I manually added a closing quote tag, so now only your first sentence is in a quote box. Then I hit return a couple of times and type whatever I want here.

<quote>How do you do that and still get all the quoted parts</quote>

Now I can right something in response to this part of your second sentence, because I manually enclosed it in quote tags.

<quote> to show up in the darkened boxes?</QUOTE>

For the second half of that sentence, I had to add a quote tag to the beginning (and I kept the original one at the end).

 

[redsteven]

And If I were to replace the greater than/less than signs with ACTUAL brackets, these things here, [ ] , this is how my response to your post would have been formatted.

There doesn't seem to be a help file for this forum, and I can't figure out how to break up someone's post into parts so I can make specific comments.

After your first sentence, I manually added a closing quote tag, so now only your first sentence is in a quote box. Then I hit return a couple of times and type whatever I want here.

How do you do that and still get all the quoted parts

Now I can right something in response to this part of your second sentence, because I manually enclosed it in quote tags.

to show up in the darkened boxes?

For the second half of that sentence, I had to add a quote tag to the beginning (and I kept the original one at the end).

 

[LivestockDoc]

One way to do it is quote the first person and copy it. Then go back and quote the second person and paste in the first quoted person.

Did that make any sense ?

Not to me, but I think it's my failing, not yours!

As you can see, I know how to do one whole quote and have it show up in a dark box like I just did with your post. But I just do that by scrolling to your post and clicking on the "Quote" icon at the bottom right. I see there is a "Mulit-quote" icon right next to it, but when I click on it nothing happens. If I wanted to quote your first sentence (and have it show up in a dark box), and then comment on it, and then have your next sentence quoted in a dark box, how do I do that?

Oops! Didn't realize Redsteven was answering me. I'll see if that explanation makes sense to me. Thanks, Red!

 

[redsteven]

Not to me, but I think it's my failing, not yours!

As you can see, I know how to do one whole quote and have it show up in a dark box like I just did with your post. But I just do that by scrolling to your post and clicking on the "Quote" icon at the bottom right. I see there is a "Mulit-quote" icon right next to it, but when I click on it nothing happens. If I wanted to quote your first sentence (and have it show up in a dark box), and then comment on it, and then have your next sentence quoted in a dark box, how do I do that?

The multi-quote is confusing in my opinion. It serves a nice function, and allows you to quote more than one post at a time, but it's sort of strange. Basically, I think that you click the multiquote button on all the posts you want to quote, and then finally click the normal quote button for one of those posts, and then you can quote all of them in your reply.

Oops! Didn't realize Redsteven was answering me. I'll see if that explanation makes sense to me. Thanks, Red!

Hope it does.


BTW... to split your message up just now.... I added a [/quote] tag after your "... and then have your next sentence quoted in a dark box, how do I do that?" The initial quote tag was already there, so I just added the new closing one to close it early. Then, I wrote my response underneath.

Then I went to your "Oops! Didn't realize Redsteven was answering...." and put a

tag before that. That way, I got to utilize the closing quote tag that was already there.

If you're still having trouble with it, I can post a screen recording of how to do it when I get a chance.

 

[LivestockDoc]

Thanks, Redsteven! I've got it figured out now. Your explanation was a big help!