after posting, when posting again the first quoted text remains

[CharlieLaub]

I have noticed the following:

I make a comment quoting the text of an existing post as part of my comment. I submit my comment and then go to reply to another post in the same way, quoting the text of a another, different post.
When I do that, the text from the post I quoted in my first comment is still in the dialog box along with the text from the second post I quoted.

Shouldn't quoted text be cleared out once the comment has been posted?

 

[Pano]

Yes it should. I have never seen that happen, but will try to reproduce it.
What' browser and OS is doing this.

 

[CharlieLaub]

Yes it should. I have never seen that happen, but will try to reproduce it.
What' browser and OS is doing this.

Firefox on Windows 8.1, all up to date.

 

[CharlieLaub]

This happened again just now. It doesn't seem to happen every time. Quoted text from my reply1 disappeared when I wrote reply2, but quoted text contained in reply2 re-appeared at the top of reply3 above the quoted text in that reply.

 

[Pano]

AllenB and I are tying to reproduce this. I do not have Windows 8, maybe AllenB does.
I am not seeing it in FireFox on Mac or Windows 10

 

[myleftear]

I have seen this too.
The red „quote“-button may have stay enabled for some reason.

Either go back and untoggle it, or close tab/window and reload the thread...

A little cumbersome, and my reply has no better solution to offer...

 

[Pano]

RED quote button?

 

[myleftear]

RED quote button?

Sorry, no. Bad memory: when active, it is shown as red. (You can quote seceral posts in one reply by clicking on those.

The default state is black&white.
And it looks like a sheet of paper or so...

 

[Galu]

Same operating system as Charlie and noticed same thing.

As myleftear says, you have to uncheck the previous, now unwanted, Multi-Quote button before making a new quote.

 

[PRR]

That was my thought too: the multi-Quote buttons sometimes stick. A minor inconvenience IMHO.

 

[Pano]

Is it just when using multi-quote? I'll take a look at that.

 

[CharlieLaub]

Is it just when using multi-quote? I'll take a look at that.

I'm not sure what multi-quote is... is that the ["+] button next to the [Reply] button? I am always using that, even when I only want to quote one post. Maybe that is not the intended use?

Also, THIS POST shows the latest example. I missed the fact that the upper/first quoted post was still there, but it's not too late to edit the post to remove it.

 

[Pano]

On the bottom right of every post you will find the Quote and the Multi-Quote button.

Single Quote: For quoting just this post. This is the most used.

Multi-Quote: For quoting this and other posts.

 

[AllenB]

I am always using that, even when I only want to quote one post. Maybe that is not the intended use?

So do I, it allows me to mark as I go along which posts I want to reply to.

This may be a long shot but have you ever seen this message (screenshot)?

 

[CharlieLaub]

On the bottom right of every post you will find the Quote and the Multi-Quote button.

Single Quote: For quoting just this post. This is the most used.

Multi-Quote: For quoting this and other posts.

In this very thread, the last post has no

button, only the [Reply] and ["+] buttons. If you choose to click [Reply] there is only a blank text input box. Is there not supposed to be a

button with the last post in a thread?

I guess since I had to turn to using the multiquote button to quote the last post in a thread, I started doing it all the time.

That still doesn't explain why, when I use multiquote and just quote one post, then submit my comment, the text that I multiquoted gets included in the next reply, when I again use multiquote in place of quote.

 

[CharlieLaub]

So do I, it allows me to mark as I go along which posts I want to reply to.

This may be a long shot but have you ever seen this message (screenshot)?

AllenB: I don't recall seeing that message before.

 

[PRR]

... Is there not supposed to be a {Quote} button with the last post in a thread?....

New Quote Function

 

[Pano]

Any change, Charlie?