Posting quotes in threads

[Grumpy Goat]

Can anyone enlighten me how you include a quote (ie a previous post further up the thread) when you post here?

Freddy - to quote a single post in your reply click the "Reply" button and proceed from there.

When I try to do this I get the following message:

You have selected one or more posts to quote. Quote these posts now or deselect them.

The red phrases are hyperlinked, but when I click on them nothing seems to happen. Any ideas please?

What you seem to want to do is select multiple posts for reply in a single reply post, by first clicking the icon with the "+" in it at the bottom of each post you wish to quote

   

and then clicking on "Quote these posts now" in the bottom of the "Quick Reply" box

   

I have never done this myself but when I tried it, it appears that for a brief instant there is a spinning icon suggesting action is being taken then ... nothing. The 2 options below the Quick Reply box are removed and all you are left with are red versions of the "+" icons but this time with a "-" in it. My first inclination is that a popup blocker is perhaps killing the operation but this is not the case. It may be a bug in the Forum software, which I will admit is not the latest version.

Workaround: Use a text editor on the side, and click "Reply" for each quote you wish to quote. Then copy the stuff starting with the [quote ...] and after the [/quote] blocks, in the text editor. You can then paste all the quotes back into the Quick Reply box, and then click "Preview Post" to get to both a preview and also a text editor web form.

I need to do an announcement post on quoting ... maybe when I get home this evening. Note - I moved this thread from "Off Topic" to "Announcements" for a better fit. Appreciate the consideration to put it in "Off Topic" in the first place.