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How do you select?
Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2009 4:09 am
by Yukon
How do you select apart of what someone wrote down without selecting the whole thing?
You know when someone types a huge paragraph and when someone quotes small sections it's kind of highlighted?
How do you do that? I 'd like to learn so I can ask questions like everyone else instead of copying the whole thing.
Yukon
Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2009 4:15 am
by talitha
just copy and paste what you want to quote into your little reply-window and then click the "quote" button above it.
Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2009 4:37 am
by Yukon
just copy and paste what you want to quote into your little reply-window and then click the "quote" button above it.
This is a sample:
[quote][/quote]
Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2009 4:38 am
by Yukon
It didn't work!
What did I do wrong?
Yukon
Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2009 4:39 am
by Yukon
just copy and paste what you want to quote into your little reply-window and then click the "quote" button above it.
[quote][/quote]
Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2009 4:40 am
by Yukon
How come it's not highlighted like other post I see on this board?
Yukon
Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2009 4:47 am
by Yukon
I just posted and quoted somehwere else and I don't think it worked because what I said was highlighted instead of the quote.
Can you explain to me what I am doing wrong?
I know that I have seen other people's writings quoted and nother the person posting.
Thanks!
Yukon
Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2009 2:08 pm
by talitha
Sorry, I went to bed.
Okay I think I left out a step.
copy and paste what you want to quote into your little reply-window
then highlight it like you're going to copy it again, but instead of copying it again,
click the "quote" button above it.
Posted: Mon Mar 09, 2009 4:23 am
by bjcollin
The easiest way for me to quote part of what somebody wrote is to quote the whole post by clicking on the quote button of a post, then deleting what I do not want from inbetween the [ quote ] stuff here [ / quote ] braces. you can also cut/paste stuff from other posts and type your own braces into your posts to quote things.
in Christ,
Posted: Mon Mar 09, 2009 7:18 pm
by page4of3
bjcollin wrote:The easiest way for me to quote part of what somebody wrote is to quote the whole post by clicking on the quote button of a post, then deleting what I do not want from inbetween the [ quote ] stuff here [ / quote ] braces.
I usually do what BJ does myself.
bjcollin wrote:"you can also cut/paste stuff from other posts and type your own braces into your posts to quote things.
Also if you Copy and paste
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[quote="bjcollin"]The easiest way for me to quote part of what somebody wrote is to quote the whole post by clicking on the quote button of a post, then deleting what I do not want from inbetween the [ quote ] stuff here [ / quote ] braces.[/quote]
I usually do what BJ does myself.
[quote="bjcollin"]"you can also cut/paste stuff from other posts and type your own braces into your posts to quote things.[/quote]
Also if you Copy and paste
looks like what I had above
The [ quote ] tag can have 1 arguement ' ="Xxxx" ' where Xxxx is the person you are quoting from. If this Argument is left out it will just say "Quote:"
I use the [ quote ] tag for scripture by doing the following
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[quote="Matthew 3:16"]And when Jesus was baptized, immediately he went up from the water, and behold, the heavens were opened to him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming to rest on him[/quote]
will appear as
Matthew 3:16 wrote:And when Jesus was baptized, immediately he went up from the water, and behold, the heavens were opened to him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming to rest on him