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• 9,041 Posts

  Thu, Jan 23 2014 5:20 PM

  DaddysKat:

  Okay ... let's do this step by step ...

  to get the box, you need to begin with the "quote user="Alcaucin" inside braces.  

  Now, to get your text to turn green (like a view), you can click the media icon like you're going to add a video ... just type what you want green ... or do it manually by typing:

  (open brace) "View:http://www.wgt.com/themes/wgt/utility/" followed by your text, followed by ":450:0 (close brace)

  Here's a sample of some green text for you! using the media icon above ...

  and here it is again, done manually:

   okay, I lied ... different green text for you, Andy!

   

  When you're all done with your quote, it needs to end with "/quote" surrounded by the braces.

  Give it a try!

  Edit: forgot to type the "/" in front of the word "quote" to end a quote.

  Getting too frustrated now...don't want to link anything and wth is a brace lol

  Outta here, obviously something that can't be explained to somebody of my limited intellect through the medium of text.

   

• 9,041 Posts

  Thu, Jan 23 2014 5:22 PM

  DaddysKat:

  Edit:  You and your pùssy must be extremely bored tonight!  

  Naaw could spend hours playing with it !

• DaddysKat 3,554 Posts

  Thu, Jan 23 2014 5:24 PM

  alcaucin:

  Oh Scott and Kat ... you two are simply amazing!!!!

  Okay ... I never typed that in a post before, but I thought it!

  just messing around, andy.

   

  Oh ... one more thing ... a quote within a quote is known as "Nesting" ... To nest, just start with the "quote user="<name1>" inside of brackets, then "quote user="<name2>" inside brackets ... then the quote from name 2, and end with the "/quote" inside brackets.  

  Now, type the quote from "name1" and end that with "/quote" inside brackets.

  I won't say it's easy, but it can be done.

  ScottHope:

  alcaucin:

  don't even know how you made the text blue

  BTW, text will turn blue when you highlight it with the mouse, like you're going to copy text.

  Have fun with that!  Gotta get back to writing code!

• 9,041 Posts

  Thu, Jan 23 2014 5:24 PM

  Thanks for trying to help all......

• DaddysKat 3,554 Posts

  Thu, Jan 23 2014 5:29 PM

  alcaucin:

  wth is a brace lol

  I honestly don't know if they are braces or brackets.  The open brace/bracket character looks like this:

       [

  and the close brace/bracket character looks like this:

       ]

  So ... you start a quote with an open brace "[" type "quote" then the close brace "]"

   This will be inside a box ... no user name included

  Edit: I'll call it a brace from here on out ... it's 2 less characters!

  It's all good, Andy!  just mess around with a message and edit it a few times until you get it working.  You'll get it!  I have faith in you!

  Kat ♥

• renniw52 5,385 Posts

  Thu, Jan 23 2014 5:42 PM

  I still don't know how to put a picture in a post. Maybe it's for the best.

• ZioMio 4,680 Posts

  Thu, Jan 23 2014 7:44 PM

  alcaucin:

  Anyone know how to quote from one post in a thread and then go to another post in the same thread and quote from that..encompassing both quotes in the reply ?

  If that makes sense  lol

  Gratefully

  Andy

   

  If you hold the CTL key on the posts you wish to quote from, each will open in a new tab. Then you can make your edits to each reply in it's own window.

  Then once you have all your replies ready and want to copy them to make one post. Right click inside each edited reply, and select the option "select all". The text is now high-lighted. Right click again and select "copy".

  Move to the post you wish to make the final reply. Right click in side the message box and select "paste".  Repeat until all your replies are in one post.

  Be sure to do a preview of your final post to make sure it is the way you want it to display.

  Then you can close all the other tabs.

• alosso 21,091 Posts

  Thu, Jan 23 2014 10:21 PM

  renniw52:

  I still don't know how to put a picture in a post. Maybe it's for the best.

  LOL - on top of the "Help" forum, there is a post "how to display scorecards". It helps, because scorecards are pics, too.

  alcaucin:

  [ View:http://www.wgt.com/themes/wgt/utility/The more I read this the less sense it makes, haha, good luck though Andy:450:0]

  Andi, you used the "Insert Media" button here which doesn't work with a text.

  A general shortcoming of this forum SW is the lack of a "quote" button which would form a quote automatically. Therefore, we must either create a quote from the genuine post or type the brackets manually.

• DaddysKat 3,554 Posts

  Thu, Jan 23 2014 10:51 PM

  alosso:

  Andi, you used the "Insert Media" button here which doesn't work with a text.

  That's funny ... it was working earlier, Alosso.  Check out this post ...

      Sample green text using "Insert Media"

  Edit:  I've tried again after your post but for the life of me, can't get it to work now!

  Let's try this!  (used "Insert Link and left the link and title blank).

• ScottHope 10,623 Posts

  Fri, Jan 24 2014 3:15 AM

  Okay, lets try again. I've added some text to my video to make things a little clearer, hopefully.

  DaddysKat:

  ScottHope:

  I would do it your way too Kat if I was quoting more than two posts, or even have two browser windows open side by side and just select, drag and drop.

  I like the "dual browser" option.  Wouldn't you still have to "quote" and "crash" the reply?  Or would you manually type the quote user="<username>" surrounded by the braces and followed by the quote (also surrounded by the braces) or are those "[" "]" characters brackets?  lol.

  It's a bit long winded Kat as I would have to quote, select all, drag into the other window and then repeat the process for every other post I wanted to quote.