Hannity Community Tips, Tricks, How To’s

[Girl_from_Ipanema]

[quote=“Airyaman, post:45, topic:184”]
Sometimes you want to break down quote into sections to address various points. [/quote]

I left the closing quote tag above on the same line as the text for an example. If I had put it on a newline, it would have displayed the text quoted as expected.

@some poster

It works rather simply in the old forum, and most other forum software by simply using [quote] and [/quote] to enclosed the various sections. Not so simple as I have discovered. But you can break a quote into sections, just not as easily.

The key is the opening [quote] tag. By itself, it does not seem to do anything. So it needs all of the information to work properly. I will use the opening post as an example.

If you want to break up a large post into separate quoted sections manually, you just can’t leave the opening or closing quote tags on the same line as text. It doesn’t necessarily need the information.

You can use =xxxxxx to include who or what you’re posting [quote=some poster] is what I used in the first manual quoted section.

Just make sure that you put the opening and closing quote tags on their own lines if you’re splitting a quote manually.

If I were doing a very large post, I might copy the stacked closing and opening tags and then just paste them at each section break. I used () instead of below to prevent execution.
(/quote)
(quote)

It just occurred to me as I pondered why the [quote] tags in the last quoted section wasn’t messing the rest of the quotes up, that the newline requirement is maybe by design so that we can discuss code without using the [code] tags.