Quotations are messing up

accymel · 02-05-2007, 20:47

Quotations in replied postings are going a bit funny, either not quoting full quote ie name of quote not the name of quoter before. Seems to be happening a lot lately on most forum threads as well as stanley forum too. Not a major problem unless like i found it misquotes who said what so gets confusing

entwisi · 02-05-2007, 20:52

care to give an example?

I sometimes just put "quote" rather than teh full "quote=accymel"

accymel · 02-05-2007, 20:54

Quote:

Originally Posted by entwisi

care to give an example?

I sometimes just put "quote" rather than teh full "quote=accymel"

Just testing with this tho doesn't do it on every post, where u click the quote button below & dont touch the quoted text but reply underneath.

accymel · 02-05-2007, 20:54

Blast didnt on that just the every 10th post or so

accymel · 02-05-2007, 20:56

As here http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/s...643#post418643

Done it a few times & not just with me either

accymel · 02-05-2007, 20:58

And this one too where it really became confusing in stanley thread too

http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/s...061#post418061

WillowTheWhisp · 02-05-2007, 22:32

It looks like people are deleting the square brackets of the quotation tags when they are editing out bits from the quotes.

accymel · 02-05-2007, 22:35

I haven't done that & it still does it now & again - weird unless its been done further down the line

WillowTheWhisp · 02-05-2007, 22:38

If you're quoting somebody who has already done it, or who is quoting somebody who has already done it then the closing tags are all messed up and it regards the last one as relating to the previous quote because the previous one related to the one before that etc until you get to the one with the faulty edit.

WillowTheWhisp · 02-05-2007, 22:40

That made sense when I wrote it but I'm not sure I understand it now I come to read it

accymel · 02-05-2007, 22:40

Quote:

Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp

If you're quoting somebody who has already done it, or who is quoting somebody who has already done it then the closing tags are all messed up and it regards the last one as relating to the previous quote because the previous one related to the one before that etc until you get to the one with the faulty edit.

Ah right so thats what causing it

Everyone make note of not removing the [ or ] around the quotes if editing, buggers it up in sequence after

entwisi · 03-05-2007, 06:44

to try and clear it up let me explain 'tags'

a start tag is "[XXXXX]" (Whatever XXXXX is is variable, you can use it for fonts, colours or in this case QUOTE. It must have a corresponding end tag "[/XXXXX] "or it breaks.

If you embed tags within tags you must keep them in a strict hierarchy

e.g.

"[XXXXXX][YYYYY]" must be closed [/YYYYYY][/XXXXX]" as teh YYYYs must be encapsulated by the XXXXXs

WillowTheWhisp · 03-05-2007, 08:36

It's known as 'nesting' - bit like those Russian dolls.

entwisi · 03-05-2007, 08:43

Aye, the word just wouldn't come to me this morning

Neil · 09-05-2007, 19:26

I have never experienced any accidentally mis quoted posts myself