practising quoting

[Baccy Man]

There are 3 main ways you can insert quotes.
Either press the button on the top right hand corner of a post to create the quote automatically. If you have already started typing your reply then you can scroll down through the previous posts & click on the "insert quote" link in the relevant post to add a quote to your reply.
Secondly you can press the button to create the tags when you are typing your post if you highlight the text in your reply you want quoted before pressing this button it will put the tags either side for you if not then you will have to cut & paste them into the right positions.
Finally you can just write in the tags either side of the text yourself.

[Baccy Man]

[BarriedaleNick]

Yes, but can you get a "[/quote]" in a quote ? (not that there's any reason you'd want to)

No, well not unless you add something like bold or italic tags to it as above which is why I used code tags to show the layout of the quoted text you would see when typing a post.

But you can nest quotes!

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[quote author=Baccy Man link=topic=59900.msg612855#msg612855 date=1272980914]
[quote author=Pesky Wabbit link=topic=59900.msg612842#msg612842 date=1272978891]

Yes, but can you get a "[[b]/quote[/b]]" in a quote ? (not that there's any reason you'd want to)

[/quote]

No, well not unless you add something like bold or italic tags to it as above which is why I used code tags to show the layout of the quoted text you would see when typing a post.
[/quote]

Secondly you can press the  button to create the tags when you are typing your post

Thanks Baccy Man - never spotted that!