What to do when you end up inside the quote block.

[SteveShannon]

Like some of you I usually quote a post or a portion of a post so the context of my comment is clear. 
On occasion I have written a comment, thought better about it and backspaced to the beginning of my comment to start again. Sometimes I backspaced one too many characters and I end up inside of the quote block. If you add your comment there it’s not easy to know what you quoted and what you commented; both appear within the quote block. 
At first I couldn’t figure out how to get out of it. It’s not always possible to click below it. 

But then I discovered that if I just go to the very end of any text or spaces in the quote block and hit a couple of returns, the forum software would move my cursor out of the quote block and underneath it, right where I wanted. 
You probably already knew this, but just in case you didn’t, I thought I’d mention it. 

[SteveShannon]

The technique I described above can also be used to break a single quote box into multiple boxes so that the original statements may be commented on separately.  For instance, a series of statements like below:

Quote

First statement.  Second statement. Third statement.

By placing the cursor inside the quotation block where you want to break, and then giving two returns, then backing up to the blank line between statements and giving three more returns, the quote block is divided:

Quote

First statement.

 

 

Quote

 Second statement. Third statement.

Of course the same technique can be used between the second and third statements as well:

Quote

Second statement.  | Third statement.

becomes:

Quote

First statement.  

 

Quote

Second statement.

 

Quote

 

Third statement.

 

So you can reply to the statements separately.

[WRUU653]

This is good info. A much simpler way than doing multiple individual quotes. Thanks for the tips @SteveShannon.

[SteveShannon]

14 minutes ago, WRUU653 said:

This is good info. A much simpler way than doing multiple individual quotes. Thanks for the tips @SteveShannon.

I discovered it accidentally, but it has made my life easier.

[RIPPER238]

On 2/10/2025 at 12:00 PM, SteveShannon said:

Like some of you I usually quote a post or a portion of a post so the context of my comment is clear. 
On occasion I have written a comment, thought better about it and backspaced to the beginning of my comment to start again. Sometimes I backspaced one too many characters and I end up inside of the quote block. If you add your comment there it’s not easy to know what you quoted and what you commented; both appear within the quote block. 
At first I couldn’t figure out how to get out of it. It’s not always possible to click below it. 

But then I discovered that if I just go to the very end of any text or spaces in the quote block and hit a couple of returns, the forum software would move my cursor out of the quote block and underneath it, right where I wanted. 
You probably already knew this, but just in case you didn’t, I thought I’d mention it. 

Good to know. I have been on forums so long i remember when i manually had to type in the code with quotes, pictures ect... Now its gotten a little fancy and hides the formula so your tip is helpful. lol