By Anonymous (not verified) on

Hello,

I'm new to drupal.
Is there a way to cite some part of a post when commenting?
I mean, something allowing this:

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> this is a point of the previous comment
> I'm reacting to

My reaction to this point
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Thanks

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ax commented

just copy&paste the part you are citing and wrap it into <blockquote> or <p><cite> (i use latter because <cite> (usually) renders italic which <blockquote> doesn't (of course you can also add <i> to the <blockquote>)). or use &gt;...<br /> ...

if you (probably) mean something like the "quote" feature found in many forum systems where you mark some text, press a "quote" button, and the marked text gets automatically inserted as quote: this isn't possible today without some hacking. see Javascript helper buttons for TextAreas for a v3 implementation which probably is easily ported to v4/CVS and may give you the idea. see also http://lists.drupal.org/pipermail/drupal-devel/2002-November/thread.html#19650. i think this has been discussed more than once on the mailing list - help yourself.