Quotes in bold blue and framed: how is it made ?

I often see DG er's quoting from a previous post in the same thread and it appears in bold blue and framed.
This is an excellent tool and I would like to know how it's done.
Thanks!

Here's a step-by-step answer to help you: http://davesgarden.com/faq/forums/#172

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Sorry, I tried it with the instructions ,but it doesn't work.
I've typed first

again.
I must be doing something wrong.

Terry,

Sorry again, now I'm really confused!

Does it mean that you have to re-type the text you want to quote ?
So you cannot copy and paste it in between the two

?

I've struggled with this too.

Here's how to add one to your thread:

copied and pasted from the instruction page

manually:


I keep wanting to use the angled brackets for html (bottom keyboard row), but they don't work. It must be done with the square brackets (next to the backslash). Then, between those brackets, type or paste the text you want to repeat.

This message was edited Feb 21, 2007 2:21 PM

Once more sorry, I still didn't capture the thing! It keeps surprising me!
What appears above is not what I actually typed.

I'm not a quick in mastering computer stuff

I think you can't have the double command the way html might allow. using your example at Post #3211811

[/quote]

Make it look like this:

[ quote]How can I put a blue "quote" box in a thread?
An indented blue "quote" box really makes a quote stand out within a thread. They can be used to highlight a direct quote taken from another site or a book or magazine, or even from another thread. Here's how to add one to your thread:
text [/quote ]

(Added spaces where they shouldn't be just after the first bracket and just before the last so you can see the command.

Cheryl,
Thanks
our posts have crossed each other!
How is it that it is not the actual instruction text appearing in your example, only the word 'text' ?

The thing that gets me in trouble most often is that there's a space somewhere between the ] and what I want to type.

See the space between the ] and test? It shouldn't be there and it won't work if there's any spaces

Edited because it did work? I guess that blows my theory out of the water.

This message was edited Feb 21, 2007 12:36 PM

bonitin, If it's done correctly you can't see the commands. I added the spaces in my post above so you can see. Your first try was correct except that you added another [quote] at the very beginning and [ /quote] at the very end, which seems to be the problem. You can do that with some html commands but apparently not with this. I had problems with this feature until I saw it used in html code.

so why isn't my bold command working now?



This message was edited Feb 21, 2007 2:42 PM

posts crosssed each other again.

I'll try again:
[ quote]How can I put a blue "quote" box in a thread?
An indented blue "quote" box really makes a quote stand out within a thread. They can be used to highlight a direct quote taken from another site or a book or magazine, or even from another thread. Here's how to add one to your thread:
text[/quote ]

Now I'm really getting embarrassed.

Another try :

IT WORKED!!

Finally understood!

Thank you so much for your patience and helpfulness!

I never mastered this either....so here goes:

HEY! It worked!!!! Jo

yea, I did it!

Hey Dawn....We advanced our"smarts" today, huh? Jo