Jeff Matthews Posted November 8, 2013 Share Posted November 8, 2013 The old forum used to allow you to highlight a portion of someone's comments, and then, when you pushed the Quote button, only the selected portion was quoted. That was cool. Is this something which the new forum will allow? Right now, you quote, the whole thing comes in, and you have to delete all around the portion you want to save. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Chad Posted November 8, 2013 Administrators Share Posted November 8, 2013 The old forum used to allow you to highlight a portion of someone's comments, and then, when you pushed the Quote button, only the selected portion was quoted. That was cool. Is this something which the new forum will allow? Right now, you quote, the whole thing comes in, and you have to delete all around the portion you want to save. Not that I'm aware of. Sorry! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich_Guy Posted November 8, 2013 Share Posted November 8, 2013 The old forum used to allow you to highlight a portion of someone's comments, and then, when you pushed the Quote button, only the selected portion was quoted. That was cool. Is this something which the new forum will allow? Right now, you quote, the whole thing comes in, and you have to delete all around the portion you want to save. Yes I liked this very much also, it made it much easier to make a partial quote. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Posted November 8, 2013 Share Posted November 8, 2013 You can still do that. All you need to do is hit the quote button, then just erase the portion of the post you do not want to quote... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Posted November 8, 2013 Share Posted November 8, 2013 You can still do that. Like this... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Posted November 8, 2013 Share Posted November 8, 2013 (edited) Oops, nevermind. I see y'all were aware of that... ...And I haven't even had a beer yet Edited November 8, 2013 by Rick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edgar Posted November 12, 2013 Share Posted November 12, 2013 The old forum used to allow you to highlight a portion of someone's comments, and then, when you pushed the Quote button, only the selected portion was quoted. That was cool. Is this something which the new forum will allow? Right now, you quote, the whole thing comes in, and you have to delete all around the portion you want to save. To add to that, previously the HTML tags showed up while editing, so that one could, for example, quote a sentence, reply to that sentence, quote another sentence, reply to that sentence, etc., by inserting the appropriate tags. Is it (or can it be) possible to see and manipulate the HTML tags while editing with the new editor? I have noticed that I can click "Quote" multiple times, then delete different portions each time, but it is then apparently not possible to eliminate the redundant "Jeff Matthews, on 08 Nov 2013 - 09:46 AM, said:" lead-ins. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Chad Posted November 13, 2013 Administrators Share Posted November 13, 2013 To add to that, previously the HTML tags showed up while editing, so that one could, for example, quote a sentence, reply to that sentence, quote another sentence, reply to that sentence, etc., by inserting the appropriate tags. Is it (or can it be) possible to see and manipulate the HTML tags while editing with the new editor? Yes, although HTML is not allowed (for security reasons). What you can do is see the BBCode tags by clicking the light switch icon in the upper-left of the editor. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edgar Posted November 13, 2013 Share Posted November 13, 2013 Yes, although HTML is not allowed (for security reasons). OK... What you can do is see the BBCode tags by clicking the light switch icon in the upper-left of the editor. Close, but not quite what I hoped. In this message I attempted to do exactly what I described in my original message. It all worked except that I cannot find a way to eliminate the word "Quote". Good enough, I think. Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Chad Posted November 13, 2013 Administrators Share Posted November 13, 2013 Just curious -- why would you need to eliminate the word "Quote"? That text area is a quote box, so it says what it is. You could instead use a "Code" area that looks like this: test But that would require you to cut & paste from the quoted text into the code area. Seems silly. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edgar Posted November 13, 2013 Share Posted November 13, 2013 Just curious -- why would you need to eliminate the word "Quote"? That text area is a quote box, so it says what it is. Because it is a quote box. It's obvious, so the word "Quote" is superfluous. Not a big deal. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Chad Posted November 13, 2013 Administrators Share Posted November 13, 2013 Just curious -- why would you need to eliminate the word "Quote"? That text area is a quote box, so it says what it is. Because it is a quote box. It's obvious, so the word "Quote" is superfluous. Not a big deal. Thanks. Ha! I don't disagree with you on that. It may not be so obvious to some people here however! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dude Posted November 13, 2013 Share Posted November 13, 2013 I never knew you could do in the old forum what you guys are talking about, I all ways just used new quote tags [], I guess I don't even know what I was missing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mustang guy Posted November 13, 2013 Share Posted November 13, 2013 What is the code button, beside the Image button, used for? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Chad Posted November 13, 2013 Administrators Share Posted November 13, 2013 What is the code button, beside the Image button, used for? It provides a way to display fixed-width text. Many other forums (for example, in the tech community) use this to have some nicely formatted text that preserves indenting, like this: This is some text. See how each letter is the same width? Boom! I'm indented. I'm indented more. I'm back to the prior indent level. Blah Blah Blah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Chad Posted November 20, 2013 Administrators Share Posted November 20, 2013 Is this something which the new forum will allow? It is now (try selecting some text on a post and You'll see a couple options) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CECAA850 Posted November 20, 2013 Share Posted November 20, 2013 It is now (try selecting some text on a post and You'll see a couple options) Cool Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mallette Posted November 21, 2013 Share Posted November 21, 2013 Awesome, Chad. You're a gentleman and a programmer... Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.