quote shadows

[garhawk]

Will someone educate me as to how the 'quote shadows' are made?

When clicking on the shadow icon, I get some verbage but, no shadow?

Go slow - I'm old.

[bevans6]

Will someone educate me as to how the 'quote shadows' are made?

When clicking on the shadow icon, I get some verbage but, no shadow?

Go slow - I'm old.

You click on the "quote" tab, you get the original message with a quote header (quote author=garhawk link=topic=23320.msg256245#msg256245 date=1334062863 in this case)  in square brackets preceding and a /quote in square brackets following the original message - those are delimiters that define the shadow box for the original message.  If you type your message inside the delimiters it gets added to the quote and is confusing for everyone, so you type your message after the final /quote and all is good.

Brian

[HighTechRedneck]

And if you are wanting to use the quote shadow feature on something you are typing in (like a quote from some other source) the easiest way to do it is to type or paste it into your post, then left click drag your mouse over the the content you want to shadow and then click the "quote" button (second from left in the row above the smileys).

If you want to get fancy and include a reference to the source in the top edge like it does automatically when you "quote reply" a post then after doing the above:

You will notice the word "quote" inside square brackets at the start of the quoted text (this is called the "opening tag").  Click your mouse between the "e" of quote and the closing bracket next to it.  Type an equal sign there, followed by what you want listed as the source in quotation marks.  It will look like this (note that I will use parenthesis where it will actually be square brackets so that the forum software will display it so you can see it rather than processing it as a shadow quote):

(quote="The Constitution of the United States")We the People  of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.(/quote)

And this is what it would display as when you post it:

We the People  of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

You can even take it a step fancier and make the citation a clickable link to the source info by selecting (left click drag mouse over it) the text "The Constitution of the United States" and clicking the button that looks like a globe, this will surround it with URL tags.  Then click between the "L" of URL and the bracket in the opening tag and type an equal sign followed by the web address to link to.  It will look like this in your post screen (again using parenthesis instead of brackets so you can see it):

(quote="(url=http://constitutionus.com/)The Constitution of the United States(/url)"]We the People  of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.(/quote)

Which will result in this:

We the People  of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

[Len Silva]

Very good explanation.  Can you move it to Board help?