There should be an easier way to quote

March 15, 2000 10:20 AM

There should be an easier way to quote someone else's post/comment. I've tried using

, but it doesn't always work as well as it should. (On another note, what should go in the URL in this case? I really don't have anything to link to).
posted by fil! to Feature Requests at 10:20 AM (5 comments total)

Hey! It let me use the brackets in the preview, and then converted them once I posted (I tried to write out the BLOCKQUOTE tag using the escape characters)... small bug.
posted by fil! at 10:20 AM on March 15, 2000

let me see....

Hey! It let me use the brackets in the preview, and then converted them once I posted (I tried to write out the BLOCKQUOTE tag using the escape characters)... small bug.

did that work?
posted by mathowie (staff) at 12:08 PM on March 15, 2000

It's tricky... you can use < > in the comments section, but for a first post you have to do < > to make it work, because it converts it for the preview, then converts again when it posts... I only had to do it wrong about 5 times to figure it out.


posted by CrazyUncleJoe at 1:23 PM on March 15, 2000

... and you should have seen what I had to do to get *that* to post correctly!

Welcome home Mattboy!
posted by CrazyUncleJoe at 1:24 PM on March 15, 2000

Yeah, there are two <br> tags after the <blockquote>, which makes it look a little funny I guess.
posted by fil! at 1:53 PM on March 16, 2000