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Never had a problem figuring it out in other forums, but on PPRUNE I've never been able to get the quote function to work!
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks in advance!
jimtherev
8th Feb 2012, 17:10
Either click the 'reply' button in the post, then when you get the new screen go to the http:// stuff at the top of the page, click at the end, and delete the figure 1 and hit enter. you will then get the whole of the post.
Alternatively copy and paste the bit you want to quote, and precede it in your reply by [ QUOTE ] and put [ /QUOTE ] at the end, omitting the spaces I've typed... otherwise I would have got
and put
- which wouldn't have helped much.
SpringHeeledJack
8th Feb 2012, 17:12
Cut and paste required text and then click on the 3rd symbol from the right in the reply toolbar, next to the hash and youtube symbols. Just don't quote me on that ;)
SHJ
KBPsen
8th Feb 2012, 17:36
You read this.
PPRuNe guide to BB code. (http://www.pprune.org/misc.php?do=bbcode#quote)
david1300
9th Feb 2012, 05:36
Cut and paste required text and then click on the 3rd symbol from the right in the reply toolbar, next to the hash and youtube symbols. Just don't quote me on that http://images.ibsrv.net/ibsrv/res/src:www.pprune.org/get/images/smilies/wink2.gif
Like this??? This is the first time I have done the quote thing properly on Pprune:ok:
SpringHeeledJack
9th Feb 2012, 07:55
Bravo david 1300! In this case it's the blind leading the blind :)
SHJ
CharlieOneSix
9th Feb 2012, 10:51
Either click the 'reply' button in the post, then when you get the new screen go to the http:// stuff at the top of the page, click at the end, and delete the figure 1 and hit enter. you will then get the whole of the post.
jimtherev's method is the one to go for. At least you know which post the quote refers to by clicking on the small arrowhead after his username.
Shack37
9th Feb 2012, 11:02
jimtherev's method is the one to go for. At least you know which post the quote refers to by clicking on the small arrowhead after his username.
Only if you want the whole of the post, otherwise go with SHJ.
CharlieOneSix
9th Feb 2012, 12:32
No, not true. If I had wanted the whole post I would have left it like this:
Either click the 'reply' button in the post, then when you get the new screen go to the http:// stuff at the top of the page, click at the end, and delete the figure 1 and hit enter. you will then get the whole of the post.
Alternatively copy and paste the bit you want to quote, and precede it in your reply by [ QUOTE ] and put [ /QUOTE ] at the end, omitting the spaces I've typed... otherwise I would have got
- which wouldn't have helped much.
but there's nothing stopping you editing the quote to emphasis the point you wish to quote as I did in two posts above.
flown-it
16th Mar 2014, 20:31
Cut and paste required text and then click on the 3rd symbol from the right in the reply toolbar, next to the hash and youtube symbols. Just don't quote me on that
Hmmm.
This is what I got trying the sjh method from post 3
Re method in post 2, i have tried to get to the "1" but cannot highlight the URL thingy on my iPad
So step by step help please for an aviator with one foot in the tar pit! :confused:
Many thanks
F-I
jimtherev
16th Mar 2014, 23:53
Sorry F-I - don't talk iPad. I'm sure someone will be along soon who does...
llondel
17th Mar 2014, 01:58
The quote function as performed by the button on the toolbar requires javascript to work. If you haven't got that enabled then you can manually put QUOTE and /QUOTE, each wrapped in square brackets, around the text you wish to be quoted.
henry_crun
17th Mar 2014, 10:20
To copy on a tablet the trick is to use a long (in duration) click or touch which brings up a menu. Choose 'select text' which should bring up two cursors. Move these to select the desired portion of text, then do a copy (which is either another long touch or a visible key atop the screen). This may be slightly different in ipad.
Long click/touch is the android equivalent of a windows mouse right click and usually brings up a useful menu. Not sure how similar ipad is.
If you otg a mouse, the right click becomes 'back'.
flown-it
17th Mar 2014, 13:30
To copy on a tablet the trick is to use a long (in duration) click or touch which brings up a menu. Choose 'select text' which should bring up two cursors. Move these to select the desired portion of text, then do a copy (which is either another long touch or a visible key atop the screen). This may be slightly different in ipad.
Long click/touch is the android equivalent of a windows mouse right click and usually brings up a useful menu. Not sure how similar ipad is.
If you otg a mouse, the right click becomes 'back'.
I think post 3 works
HMMMM No it did not!
why in my post 10 do I have that blue box round my paste but it is not in this post? I'm trying to get that cool blue box
henry_crun
17th Mar 2014, 14:35
Nearly!!!
But you missed the [ before /QUOTE]
....hurrah!!!
BOSSIE
18th Mar 2014, 08:05
Cut and paste required text and then click on the 3rd symbol from the right in the reply toolbar, next to the hash and youtube symbols. Just don't quote me on that ;)
Just practicing :eek:
flown-it
18th Mar 2014, 11:43
Many thanks one and all.
What threw me and generated my last post is that the blue box does not appear in preview post, and this is the odd thing, it does not appear when I post. I have to leave the site and when I come back? Eureka the box is there!
Back to the tar pit!
AH:confused:
hamster3null
21st Mar 2014, 08:14
Hmmm.
This is what I got trying the sjh method from post 3
Re method in post 2, i have tried to get to the "1" but cannot highlight the URL thingy on my iPad
So step by step help please for an aviator with one foot in the tar pit! :confused:
Many thanks
F-I
The method in post 2 most definitely works. Though I got banished indefinitely from the MH370 thread for suggesting the same to a person asking the same question, so I can only presume that the method is somehow illegal.
I don't know much about iPad, but I'm pretty sure there is a way to manipulate the URL there too. I have a couple of Android devices and I can do that on those.
On an iPad tap and hold in the URL box, when insert cursor appears scroll right (i.e. keep holding and move your hand to the right) to the end, backspace over the 1 and insert a 0 (that's a zero not an Ohh)
You read this.
PPRuNe guide to BB code. (http://www.pprune.org/misc.php?do=bbcode#quote)
Hmmm wonder if this works:
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet
Ah-ha ….!!!!