bidaar wrote: ↑06 Apr 2021
idk how to only use one section of your text and reply to it ...
Ok,
when you hit the quotation mark to respond and you see the text that you are quoting, you will notice that the text is inside some weird looking text that includes some stuff like the user id etc. You don't need to know the specifics of what is in the brackets, you just need to know that these are called "tags" and they are the basis of BBCode (Bulletin Board Code); you may also note that when you hit Submit and read the post, they don't present like this. BBCode is basically a child of HTML, and runs inside it - so if you get good with BBCode then you may wish to start messing around with HTML and web design
So long as you don't mess with the stuff inside the tags (between the [ square brackets ] ), then you can edit the text inside them as much as you want:
[opening tag, leave this bit alone]
Edit this bit as much as you want
[closing tag, leave this alone too]
The closing tag is always the one with the "/" just before it says quote. Because each one is a start or an end, then if you wish to have one quote relate to a prior quote then that quote would normally sit entirely inside the other one, like this:
[new tag start]
[older tag start]
[older tag finish]
[new tag finish]
This is called nesting, and is one of the most important concepts in HTML/XML/BBCode/JSON/YAML...... a biiiiig looooooong list of formatting styles which includes .repatch files too
I'll let you learn it yourself from here, but it's lots of fun to learn,
Cheers,
Brian