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icon3.gif Quote tags on Place of Safety  [message #22206] Sun, 12 September 2004 11:33 Go to next message
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A couple of contributors have asked about the use of quote tags on Place of Safety. Unfortunately, tags such as [quote], <Q> and <BLOCKQUOTE> don't work.

There is a "Quote message" button which you can use when posting a reply to a post which reproduces the original post in italics, preceded by "Nick said:" (or whatever the name of the author was).

However, as an alternative, there is one HTML tag which does create a useful effect, which is the paragraph tag, <P>. Although this does nothing by itself, a grey background can be added using the attribute STYLE="background-color:#BBBBBB". Always end the paragraph you are highlighting with </P>.

To illustrate, here's an example.

Blue said:

Trying different quote tags this time, they didn't work properly in my last post.


I created this effect by typing:

<P STYLE="background-color:#BBBBBB">Trying different quote tags this time, they didn't work properly in my last post.</P>.

You can also use the <I> tag for italics, terminated with </I>. So to create:

Trying different quote tags this time, they didn't work properly in my last post.


just type:

<P STYLE="background-color:#BBBBBB"><I>Trying different quote tags this time, they didn't work properly in my last post.</I></P>.

Just to make sure, always test what you have done using the Preview button before you post! Also make sure that the HTML box is ticked, which it is by default.
Re: Quote tags on Place of Safety  [message #22207 is a reply to message #22206] Sun, 12 September 2004 15:52 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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What you find with HTML and this board is that we allow a very limited subset of HTML. Messagboards are highly formatted and are sensitive to opening tags without a closing tag for that reason.

We don't use any of the meta languages to "represent" html. Justhtml per se.

The "quote" function produces an entire message from which you may extract parts.

If a tag you use proves to cause troibel in the board we will both delete the message and disable that quote.



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Re: Quote tags on Place of Safety  [message #22208 is a reply to message #22206] Sun, 12 September 2004 18:36 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Timmy and Nick, thank you. This board UI is kinda different than the other board softw. I've used. (And I missed that button in the reply window. Duh.)

OK, let me try a few things to see if they'll work. Just playing around, here.

Nick wrote:
> There is a "Quote message" button which you can use when posting a reply to a post which reproduces the original post in italics, preceded by "Nick said:" (or whatever the name of the author was).
>

Trying some CSS to get an effect like a block quote. This is italic and this is bold and this is bold italic isn't that nice? The style attribute just uses a little more CSS.



Ha! Used the font tag to set the text color to red!

Hmm. Have to look for a help FAQ or info on what software this board uses, to know what tags are useful.
Re: Quote tags on Place of Safety  [message #22210 is a reply to message #22208] Sun, 12 September 2004 20:20 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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The FAQ won't be much help. We have the ability to ban any tag at any time it becomes a nuisance. We banned most of the common "nuisance tags". Of course you are free to experiment, as is everyone. But you will not be able to use anything that will wreck the place.

Ordinary formatting instructions are reasonable, of course. But idiotic use of font sizes is to be deprecated.

When we migrated to this software we challenged people to break it, you see. And when they did we banned the tag Wink

Our objective was always simple. A board to use, not one I had to maintain. In addition we have people like that poisonous jerk I had to ban here who would post anything he could to wreck the place.



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Re: Quote tags on Place of Safety  [message #22211 is a reply to message #22210] Sun, 12 September 2004 21:04 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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I was only thinking of the usual formatting things that some other boards use. Merely getting used to the place.

Low-maint. is always good. Smile

Courtesy's even better. Cool
Re: Quote tags on Place of Safety  [message #22216 is a reply to message #22211] Mon, 13 September 2004 05:55 Go to previous message
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no discourtesy intended.



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