Can you install chrome or similar and see if its an issue?
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Can you install chrome or similar and see if its an issue?
Highlight the text and select reply, see the attachment. The old forum worked the same way.
If you want to add more paragraphs, select them and either use multi quote or you can highlight and click reply and they all get added to your reply.
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I'm not seeing that option in Firefox. I don't use the forums on my mobile, so perhaps the two are different?
You don't see the standard reply button in bottom right?
Are you running custom themes?
I don’t use Firefox at all but on all the other browsers I’ve used, desktop or mobile, the multi and reply options are there when I highlight text.
No, I just use OcUK's own blue theme, completely unmodified apart from a few rules in uBlock Origin to make more space. Even with uBo disable, nothing changes.
This is all I get:
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You need to highlight the text of a different post - any other text (including the text of a quote within a post) doesn't get the popup.No, I just use OcUK's own blue theme, completely unmodified apart from a few rules in uBlock Origin to make more space. Even with uBo disable, nothing changes.
This is all I get:
What if you select some text in a post, not in the reply.
Okay that worked, I see what you mean now. But what I meant earlier was, what if I wanted wanted to copy and paste some text and insert it as a quote? There isn't a quote button.
We’ve just shown you.
Select the text, select ‘reply’. Reply is the equivalent of the old ‘quote’ button.
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I think he means text from another site?
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You mean from somewhere else - so not quoting a post but say a document or something?
The "Multi" button in the toolbar (looks like a double quote character:
) gives you an empty quote box you can type or paste into.Ahh, that’s possible.
Paste it into the reply box, highlight it, hit the three dots and select the quote icon.
Sure, I’ve just downloaded the Chrome app and will see how that goes for the next day or so. Thanks
That's right. Sometimes I might want to copy and paste text, say from a BBC article. I usually copy and paste it, to retain the formatting, otherwise I'll just remove the formatting if it messes fonts up, etc.
I'm not seeing a quote icon when I click the three dots.
Or when I highlight the text.
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isnt it literally 2 icons to the left of the 3 dots?
what I don't understand is that, isn't this exactly as it was before, just with a different word now for this action, but otherwise it is basically all the same process and same area that the buttons are/were?
Okay I am a bit confused now. When I tried copying and pasting a few lines of text from Notepad and clicked that button, they were all quoted in one box.
Earlier, when I was editing a quote of several lines of text, when I pressed Enter the box split. I think this is why I thought the multi button wasn't what I wanted. It seems that you split the quote when editing pressing Enter.
I’ve given it a go and gone to video/link heavy threads a few times and general browsing and the issue doesn’t seem to occur when using the Chrome app…
Problem solved
I will take a look, but this is likely an apple/safari issue so unlikely something I can roll a fix out for.