'Quotes' when responding to posts

Wishbone Ash

I have two questions regarding using 'Quotes' when responding to posts:

1. When I edit a quote to respond to a particular part of a long post, I've noticed that sometimes the quote loses it's blue background in my post and other times it doesn't. It looks much less distinctive, as a quote, without this background. This does not appear to happen to others - why does it happen to me?

2. I've noticed that others appear to be able to fragment a quote to respond to one section at a time or can include several quotes in the one post. I've tried unsuccessfully to do this. What is the secret?

Apologies if this has come up before - I couldn't find anything about it. I'm fairly new here. Any help apreciated. Thanks.

Beruthiel

are you using the quote tags correctly?

[ quote] at the start of the comment, and ending with: [ /quote]

(I have put a space in each tag so you can see it)

Wishbone Ash

Beruthiel wrote:

are you using the quote tags correctly?

[ quote] at the start of the comment, and ending with: [ /quote]

QUOTE]


I click on the 'qoute' icon on the bottom right and then edit the quote when it appears if necessary. For example, I've removed one line from your post and now the blue shading is gone. this dosen't seem to happen to other posters.

Gordon

If you want to quote a poster like this:

Gordon wrote:

This is a quote

Type this:
[noparse]

Gordon wrote:

This is a quote

[/noparse]

Or you can simply put a quote without the username:

This is an anonymous quote without a username

Type this:
[noparse]

This is an anonymous quote without a username

[/noparse]

If you just want to quote the whole text then the QUOTE button will reply to the post and fill in the quote tags.

If you want multiple quotes you will have to break up the text into chunks and wrap [noparse]

tags around the chunks of text

.[/noparse]

Wishbone Ash

Many thanks Beruthiel/Gordon. I think I've got the hang of it now.