Sorry Jellybean, we are trying to balance the view between different devices. We've been tinkering with the screen and related controls today, icons, toolbars and avatars. We should have this concern with these and the PM controls resolved shortly. Mobile users may notice issues with the toolbar until we can complete additional adjustments.
Surfcrest
Is everything OK with the Quote buttons now? PM me if you have any questions. Sorry I missed your post, JB. I've been too busy with the back-end settings to stay current on reading board posts.
Quote button on the post of the user you want to post opens a compose message window with that post already pre-quoted in its entirety. You can edit out all but the part you are quoting if you want.Originally Posted by Jellybean
If you just use the "post reply" button you can scroll the thread history at the bottom of the window and copy and paste what you want to quote into your message and use the BBCOde buttons (where the bold and italic buttons are) Use the "quote" button there to format it as a quote. It won't insert the person's name into the quote if you do it that way though. You have to make it
instead of the default
that you get from the BBCode buttons.
I don't think this behavior has changed. Just the buttons are displayed differently on the new style.
Hi elephantspike
Thanks for taking the time out to answer my query. I appreciate that you and Surfcrest are very busy at the moment and I should have taken this into account when making my previous comment.
But I still cannot quote as I did before. By that I mean by posting my comments and scrolling down to pick the relevant parts of members comments that I wanted to quote.
The only way, as I did above, was to quote the other memberтАЩs comments which would then open up a тАШpost replyтАЩ box. Then I had to edit out all the extraneous comments I didnтАЩt think was relevant. A very long winded way to go about it.
And what about when I want to quote another memberтАЩs comments, how would I do that?
Note: This was meant to be a PM but after I realised I'd posted in the main forum I could not delete it ... sorry!
Remember: Coughs and sneezes spread diseases
Click the "Post Reply" button (Not the "quote" button on the user's post)- scroll down under the compose message pane:
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there's a little scroll bar on the message history pane down below the compose message pane. Use that to locate and copy and paste desired quote:
Highlight your quote and cick the "quote BBcode button above the compose message pane:
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That button inserts the tags around your quote- that's what formats it as a quote. Then you can go down to the message history pane and find another quote:
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(Advanced/optional)- You can insert the user's name that you are quoting into the quote BBcode tags to format the quote with "suchandsuch said..."... but you have to get the syntax just right for that to work:
make
intoCode:[quote]
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This functionality is built into phpBB. Was it different on the old board? I don't think it was. You are just used to seeing the buttons displayed on a different style. Maybe try changing your board style to ProSIlver in your user control panel > board preferences. That will be a more familiar layout.
Is there any way Jellybabys personal IT support can be put into a separate thread???
Great one-liner BrisbaneGuy!
Yes, IтАЩll hold my hand up and freely admit that IтАЩm absolutely hopeless with technology! Think the 19th century would have suited me better!
Remember: Coughs and sneezes spread diseases
I thought I knew how to include a quote in my replies but, after reading Spike's complicated procedure I know nothing.
A quick note for those, who like me, may have missed it (as it was in a thread not specifically about quotes) and prefer the old quotes function where you can use the quote button on the original page of the post you wish to quote and insert into your reply.
Was just catching up with a few threads not had time to browse through and came upon the information and instructions Spike posted in the middle of Jellybean's "My first month back in Thailand " thread where he shows how you can change your board style to "Prosilver" in your board preferences which allows you to use the old style of quotes function if you prefer that quoting style.
It's right here:
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You don't have to switch to prosilver to use that- that is just if you want the buttons to look more like what you are used to. All the same buttons are on the Simplicity style they just look different.
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