What you want to look for are these (they come in sets that include an opening tag and a closing tag - the period is not found in the actual tag, I put it there so the code would display as text):
[.quote="Arwen"]blah blah blah[./quote]
[.quote="Arwen'] begins the quoted text and [./quote] closes the quoted text.
So sometimes you'll get a whole string of these, and each set controls a different quote. And, each quote must have a full set, that is one opening and one closing tag.
So let's look at what you might see in a typical message where two people have been quoted:
I think you're full of beans, Arwen!
Arwen wrote:But Arwen has quoted Sioni and written some other stuff. Arwen was the latest person to do the quoting so her opening quote tag starts the whole sheebang and ends it as well.Sioni wrote:Here's some stuff that Sioni said. Notice it's located between a set of opening and closing quote tags. The opening tag says "Sioni".
What the paragraph above will look like in "code view" (that is when you are writing your message that includes a quote) is this:
I think you're full of beans, Arwen!
[.quote="Arwen"][.quote="Sioni"]Here's some stuff that Sioni said. Notice it's located between a set of opening and closing quote tags. The opening tag says "Sioni".[./quote]But Arwen has quoted Sioni and written some other stuff. Arwen was the latest person to do the quoting so her opening quote tag starts the whole sheebang and ends it as well.[./quote]
See how I've color coded the opening and closing quotes so you can see which goes with which?
But if you were to remove the tag that closes Sioni's quote it would cause the two messages to run together and you'd have an opening tag that shows up as part of the message text. Like so:
Arwen wrote:Sioni wrote:Here's some stuff that Sioni said. Notice it's located between a set of opening and closing quote tags. The opening tag says "Sioni". But Arwen has quoted Sioni and written some other stuff. Arwen was the latest person to do the quoting so her opening quote tag starts the whole sheebang and ends it as well.
Notice the difference in the two areas with white backgrounds? You can see there's a pink line that surrounds each quote when the quote has it's proper set of tags. In the first box with a white background, you can see there is an inner box with a pink outline. That shows you where Sioni's remarks begin and end. This is the way it should look.
But in the second box with a white background, the one where I've removed one of the closing quotes, there is no distinction between where Sioni's remarks end and mine begin. This is not what it should look like.
So be sure not to accidentally delete a closing quote tag!
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Good morning!
