how to make multiple quotes

[msc66]

I searched and can't believe no-one has asked this before but how do you make multiple quotes in one post?

[Truzi]

You could do it the hard way... by hand, or you can use the board feature.

At the lower right corner of each post are three buttons. Click the "Multi Off" button on each post you want to quote. It is off - when you click it, it turns multi-quoting on.

After you've clicked this button on each post you want to quote, hit the "Post Reply" button that is below the last thread.

Your reply window will have all the quotes. If you want, you can delete text that you do not want in a quote - why quote the whole post if you are only refering to one sentenc?

Give it a try here - practice.

[bob k. mando]

need to give him a couple of posts to try that out on.

bump. :Dou:




Click the "Multi Off" button on each post you want to quote. It is off - when you click it, it turns multi-quoting on.

hah. i've never even noticed that before. i always build mine by hand.


i think it really sucks that SysAdmins have started turning off ( or new default in the most recent versions of vBoard? ) the visibility of the ubb code. i remember a lot of it from when it used to show it in your pre-post window but i'm getting a little rusty.

[1972 Stage 1]

how do you make multiple quotes in one post?
Like this?


At the lower right corner of each post are three buttons. Click the "Multi Off" button on each post you want to quote. It is off - when you click it, it turns multi-quoting on.
It works!


need to give him a couple of posts to try that out on.:Dou:
Thanks!

I've also wondered how to do it. :TU:

[msc66]

You could do it the hard way... by hand
Give it a try here - practice.

Uuhh, ok :)



i think it really sucks that SysAdmins have started turning off ( or new default in the most recent versions of vBoard? ) the visibility of the ubb code. i remember a lot of it from when it used to show it in your pre-post window but i'm getting a little rusty.

What the???


Like this?


Yes, I do! Thanks

[bob k. mando]

What the???

you would type something like this ( less the backslash in the first "Quote" tag ):


[/quote="msc66"]
Yes, I do! Thanks
[/quote]

to get something like this:


Yes, I do! Thanks



it used to be that when you clicked on the "Bold/Italics/Quote/etc" buttons, you'd see that code before the message went to post. you don't see it anymore but you can still hand enter it.

[Truzi]

Yep, you got it.

Doing it by hand can actually put words in other people's mouths:

Truzi is the coolest.
or

Able was I ere I saw Elba.
and other stupid things:
such as nesting
like this
:) Don't Click Here (http://truzi1.googlepages.com/truzi.html)... the code can get ugly and confusing.

I usually do it by hand as I find it faster. I type quickly.

Bob, how did you get it to show the code? Whenever I try to post code, it actually executes the code, even though I've tried using the code to show the code. I take it it was the backslash you put in the first quote tag.

[bob k. mando]

Bob, how did you get it to show the code? Whenever I try to post code, it actually executes the code, even though I've tried using the code to show the code. I take it it was the backslash you put in the first quote tag.

yeah, i put "code" tags around that hoping that would do the job but the board reads tags inside the "code" area anyway ( so just what the hell is the point of a "code" tag if it isn't going to let you display code? :confused::Dou: ).

after i found out that wouldn't get the job done i just left "code" tags in place and hacked in the extra close "quote" tag.

for those who are having a hard time following this, every ubb function has a prefix / start tag and suffix / close / stop tag. the prefix tells the board where you want to start doing something and the suffix tag tells the board where to stop the effect. all of your bolding, italics, fonts, sizes, etc, function this way. a tag is the name of the function ( "quote", "i" for italic, "b" for bold, etc ) surrounded by brackets ... [ ]. a 'suffix' is the name of the function, in brackets, but with a backslash before the name of the command.

the board will error out when you attempt to post if you have a prefix tag with no suffix tag to close your function. but if you've got extra suffix tags it ignores them. that what i was showing in that previous example, double suffix tags.

[bob k. mando]

that bob, he's the greatest!


silly Truzi. you don't have to hand enter the code to put words in somebody elses mouth. just use the quote button and delete everything they really did say and substitute what you wanted them to say.






Don't Click Here (http://truzi1.googlepages.com/truzi.html)

did i just get Truzirolled? i did, i did get Truzirolled! :o

bad Truzi-cat. :spank:

[Tom Miller]

You could do it the hard way... by hand, or you can use the board feature.

At the lower right corner of each post are three buttons. Click the "Multi Off" button on each post you want to quote. It is off - when you click it, it turns multi-quoting on.

After you've clicked this button on each post you want to quote, hit the "Post Reply" button that is below the last thread.

Your reply window will have all the quotes. If you want, you can delete text that you do not want in a quote - why quote the whole post if you are only refering to one sentenc?

Give it a try here - practice.

You learn something new everyday. Thanks guy's,and gal:TU:


need to give him a couple of posts to try that out on.

bump. :Dou:




Click the "Multi Off" button on each post you want to quote. It is off - when you click it, it turns multi-quoting on.

hah. i've never even noticed that before. i always build mine by hand.


i think it really sucks that SysAdmins have started turning off ( or new default in the most recent versions of vBoard? ) the visibility of the ubb code. i remember a lot of it from when it used to show it in your pre-post window but i'm getting a little rusty.


silly Truzi. you don't have to hand enter the code to put words in somebody elses mouth. just use the quote button and delete everything they really did say and substitute what you wanted them to say.






Don't Click Here (http://truzi1.googlepages.com/truzi.html)

did i just get Truzirolled? i did, i did get Truzirolled! :o

bad Truzi-cat. :spank:

[Bad Boattail]

Bob, how did you get it to show the code? Whenever I try to post code, it actually executes the code, even though I've tried using the code to show the code. I take it it was the backslash you put in the first quote tag.

yeah, i put "code" tags around that hoping that would do the job but the board reads tags inside the "code" area anyway ( so just what the hell is the point of a "code" tag if it isn't going to let you display code? :confused::Dou: ).

after i found out that wouldn't get the job done i just left "code" tags in place and hacked in the extra close "quote" tag.

for those who are having a hard time following this, every ubb function has a prefix / start tag and suffix / close / stop tag. the prefix tells the board where you want to start doing something and the suffix tag tells the board where to stop the effect. all of your bolding, italics, fonts, sizes, etc, function this way. a tag is the name of the function ( "quote", "i" for italic, "b" for bold, etc ) surrounded by brackets ... [ ]. a 'suffix' is the name of the function, in brackets, but with a backslash before the name of the command.

the board will error out when you attempt to post if you have a prefix tag with no suffix tag to close your function. but if you've got extra suffix tags it ignores them. that what i was showing in that previous example, double suffix tags.

There's another way to show the code:

http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa245/buickphotos/V8Buick%20related/Quote.jpg

[Bad Boattail]

For some reason the DELETE POST function doesn't show in the section of the board when you are editing your post ?

[austingta]

I've wondered how to do that too.

Something else that I can't figure out (maybe you can)... when I make a post with a pic hosted by photobucket, and then edit it, you lose the picture and it is replaced with the url of the picture. The only way to reinsert the pic is to paste the IMG file url again. Any ideas why?

Thanks

[Bad Boattail]

That question was asked before, and nobody came up with a good answer.

Best thing is to do is to delete the entire post (if you want to edit it and there is already an URL in it), and post it again.

But now I discovered that in this section there is no DELETE POST function....:ball:

[Smartin]

I can see the delete button just fine when I am in the edit mode - see attached screen shot.

Also, notice the small A/A button on the top right of the text box. Click that, and you will be able to see your UBB code again.

[Bad Boattail]

This is what I see when I edit (even in advanced mode) my previous post, notice that there is no DELETE MESSAGE button.
And this only happens to me in this section of the board.

http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa245/buickphotos/V8Buick%20related/Delete.jpg

[Smartin]

Only happens in this section? I believe Mike Bucy turned off the delete function in this section when he opened it up. This allows all previous problems and questions to be archived without losing them to members deleting their own threads or posts.

[Truzi]

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:( Help, I've fallen and I can't get up.

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[bob k. mando]

There's another way to show the code:


okay, i give up. if the code tag won't allow you to display code, what did you use to do that?

[Smartin]

php code


or html

[bob k. mando]

you know, i thought about those two but i couldn't see any logical reason why they would work when a straight up [code] tag didn't.
:Dou:


ps - that's also NOT what Erik did. his example does not have the label in the upper left hand corner above the 'code'.

[Smartin]

Because that's an image that he posted. Right click on his "code", and you will see the .jpg extension.

[bob k. mando]

Because that's an image that he posted. Right click on his "code", and you will see the .jpg extension.

mwahahahahaha. it's Erik, i should have known. :laugh: