^ This is how we “quote” each other in College Confidential:
- Copy the text you want to "quote" and paste it into the "Reply" box.
- Wrap the quoted text in bracketed "quote" tags, like this:
[quote]
… quoted text …
[/quote](but without the asterisks, which I added to prevent the browser from applying the “quote” tags.
Note that the start tag only has the word “quote” in brackets, but the end tag also has a forward-slash.
Together, the start tag and end tag instruct your browser to apply special formatting to all the enclosed words.
There are other tags besides “quote” tags. If you wrap your words in a “b” tag, all the words will appear in bold. If you wrap your words in an “i” tag, they’ll appear in italics.