Quoting someone in a post

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I should know how to do this by now, but how do you quote someone in the grey box?
Thanks

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[ quote]I should know how to do this by now, but how do you quote someone in the grey box?
Thanks[ /quote]

Eliminate the space after the open bracket.

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Write:

[ quote] text here [ /quote] but without the spaces before the word “quote”

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Like this:

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Thanks!

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I didn’t know about the equals thing!

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How do you negate effects, @ucbalumnus?

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Thank you for asking this question! I’ve been wondering for a while how to do this!

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[ will render as [ in HTML, but not trigger forum effects normally triggered by [ .

https://dev.w3.org/html5/html-author/charref shows how to cause an otherwise-special character to be rendered.