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  • 12-09-2020 11:56am
    #1
    carr62
    Registered Users Posts: 149 ✭✭


    Hi, sorry to have to ask this, and not even sure if I'm posting in the correct forum, but can anyone solve a mystery for me please? I see replies posted up, where people have the comment they are replying to in a box, then their own comments underneath the box. Could anyone let me know how to do that please? When I click "reply" to a comment, the comment appears and if I write my reply underneath, when I post it my reply and the original comment all appear in the same box.....hope I'm making sense here not sure if I'm explaining it very well. I'm using a mobile to access this site, not sure if that's making any difference. Thanks for reading.


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  • #2
    Spear
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Help & Feedback Category Moderators Posts: 25,047 CMod ✭✭✭✭Spear


    carr62 wrote: »
    Hi, sorry to have to ask this, and not even sure if I'm posting in the correct forum, but can anyone solve a mystery for me please? I see replies posted up, where people have the comment they are replying to in a box, then their own comments underneath the box. Could anyone let me know how to do that please? When I click "reply" to a comment, the comment appears and if I write my reply underneath, when I post it my reply and the original comment all appear in the same box.....hope I'm making sense here not sure if I'm explaining it very well. I'm using a mobile to access this site, not sure if that's making any difference. Thanks for reading.

    What you're referring to is quoting.

    The desktop version has a simple quote button that does it in one single press, but the touch version of the site doesn't have it, only a plain reply button.


  • #3
    Boards.ie: Mark
    Boards.ie Employee Posts: 5,461 ✭✭✭✭✭Boards.ie: Mark
    Boards.ie Employee


    Hi carr62,

    Just to follow up on this, looking at one of your old posts, the closing [/quote] tag was omitted.

    When you click reply (on a post on touch) or the quote button on desktop, it will put [noparse]
    before the post that you are replying to and
    [/noparse] after. If the [/quote] tag is missing, the quoted message and the reply will also appear to be written as one message without the quote box.

    Similarly, if you type anything within these quote tags, it will appear as part of the quoted message with nothing to indicate that it wasn't part of the original post (unless the user outlines as much).

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