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Old 03-10-2006, 10:34 PM
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Default How to Quote Another User

Here are the instructions on how to quote another user.

The [quote] tag allows you to attribute text to someone else. To use it properly, you need to put [quote] at the beginning of the quoted text and [/quote] at the end of the quoted text. Notice the difference between the two. The beginning is [quote] and the end is [/quote] with the added forward slash.

For example, this code
[quote]Jamie wrote this very insightful sentence.[/quote]
will produce this

Quote:
Jamie wrote this very insightful sentence.
Now you can also do this
[quote=Jamie McDaniel]Jamie wrote this very insightful sentence.[/quote]
Which will produce this

Quote:
Originally Posted by Jamie McDaniel
Jamie wrote this very insightful sentence.
Notice how it inserted the header "Originally Posted by."

For more examples on this and other tags, refer to this link:
www.soulforce.org/forums/misc.php?do=bbcode#quote

The editor normally handles this correctly when you hit the quote button, but I've noticed several dangling [quote] tags in posts. Hope that helps.
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