Glitch?

[Anonymous]

Hi, Jeff. Do you know why sometimes the quoted part captures all the new text in a post even when it's outside the "quote" symbols? Seems to happen randomly.

[jsteele]

I would have to see an example, but my guess is that there are several layers of quotes (a quote within a quote) and one closing quote tag got lost somehow.

[Anonymous]

It's in this thread, but it happens periodically.

http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/382388.page

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:It's in this thread, but it happens periodically.

http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/382388.page

On that one, the closing quote tag is missing the final bracket. Whether a glitch caused it to go missing or the user simply deleted it for some reason, I can't say. I've never experienced tags getting messed up myself, but that doesn't mean it couldn't happen. Still, I'd lean toward user error for that example.

[Anonymous]

Even though it happened so many times in a row? I posted a second time and deliberately typed outside the quote symbols, and someone else had the same problem right after that. I've noticed that in threads -- that it tends to happen multiple times in a row.

Anyway, odd. Thanks for looking at it.

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:Even though it happened so many times in a row? I posted a second time and deliberately typed outside the quote symbols, and someone else had the same problem right after that. I've noticed that in threads -- that it tends to happen multiple times in a row.

Anyway, odd. Thanks for looking at it.

The quote tag with the missing bracket got carried through. Quote your message and look at the quoted text. You will see the first quote is missing a bracket at the end of it closing quote tag. Add a bracket and type a response. The quotes should be fixed.