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Will you also add the "how to" for it in your tutorial? [tiny voice saying, "Please."]

Not the tiny voice saying please! Anything but that! The guilty--it's just horrible! =)

I wasn't planning to add it to the help page since I didn't think most people would be interested in such a thing, but since you used the tiny please voice, I guess I have to now. *heavy sigh*

In any case, it works just like the quote tag does--except you use the word "blockquote" instead of "quote". It's also in the help page for the message boards as well in case you forget.

Happy trails!

-- Ryan

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I figured it was getting interpreted at rendering time, but at edit time is of course the more efficient time.

*nodding* At the edit time, I only have to render it once and it works for millions of page views. =) At rendering time.... well, I'd have to process it with every page view. Very inefficient. *nodding*

Admittedly, that's also a big reason I don't like making posts editable. To edit it, I have to "convert" the string back to what the person typed. That's not always terribly easy to do. Especially if I've changed the mapping like I did with quote blocks. Those quote boxes make editing very hard to do!

-- Ryan

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I wasn't planning to add it to the help page since I didn't think most people would be interested in such a thing

Thanks for implementing the blockquote feature. I'm all ready going over my clues to see where I could add the tag, to give the pages a better layout.

Lone R

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I can't go back to that clue to see what was actually typed

Works just like other elements with both start and end tags <blockquote> and </blockquote>.

Sorry, Ryan, I just noticed that &< and others don't make the round trip. That is, after I preview the post, the character rather than the directive appears in the edit box.

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Not the tiny voice saying please! Anything but that! The guilty--it's just horrible! =)

At least it's not the sad puppy dog eyes!

Funny how I can say "no" to my kids, no matter how sweetly they ask.
But all the dog has to do is just look cute and "bam" she gets whatever she wants!

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Oops, && doesn't stop the directive in & l t ;

OK, I'm gonna stop messing with this for a while. I hope it's not already too late to avoid seriously annoying you.

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I just noticed that &< and others don't make the round trip. That is, after I preview the post, the character rather than the directive appears in the edit box.

That's okay--that shouldn't be a problem. The edit box can handle it. =) If there a specific case where something isn't happening correctly, point me to it. If you just use & by itself, for instance, you can type it in as & or &amp; -- it'll work either way. (And to get &amp; to show up, I actually type to type "&amp;amp;"--see if THAT gets confusing!)

-- Ryan

Robust voice saying, "Thank you." (I reserve tiny voice for rare occasions.)

I use this one all the time:

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So fun to play and play . . .

Mama Cache (off to her duties)

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to get & to show up, I actually type to type "&"

Right. But, after I preview a message in which I've written out "& l t ;" (no spaces), the edit box now contains "<" instead of "& l t ;". Now I know that "<" is fine to use instead of "& l t ;", but in this case I wanted to show a tag without it get interpreted. In my message I had written "& l t ;blockquote& g t;" which shows just what I want in preview and just what I want if I submit it without previewing it, but if I preview it first, I have change the "<" back to "& l t ;" in the message edit field before submitting it. Of course there is, in this case, the simple work around of including an extra space in the tag.

Didn't I say I'd drop this? Sorry.

type "&"</type>

Case in point. I was OK until I previewed that, then the first "& amp;" got interpreted and I forgot to edit it back.

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I was OK until I previewed that, then the first "& amp;" got interpreted and I forgot to edit it back.

Ah, I see. You're trying to be tricky. Don't do that. ;o)

If you want to type tags so people see the actual tag rather their effect, I'd copy the message first, preview it, then paste the copied message into the edit box. AQ really doesn't work well when you want it to show actual tags rather than their effects which is why most people add spaces somewhere in the tag so it won't get interpreted.

But if you want to show a tag instead of the effects of a tag, you have to encode the & itself. So instead of typing "&lt;", you really want to type "&amp;lt;". It's ugly, but it works. =) And heaven forbid, don't preview it first! Or at least copy the message to repaste it before you post it. *nodding*

-- Ryan