Board Thread:Eureka Moments/@comment-29205531-20170519075346/@comment-32738051-20170519172917

Sorry but this is going to be rather long but hopefully it will help.

Being on a Win 8.1 PC running IE 11, my wiki editor option is limited to Classic Editor Source Mode, aka wikitext. It's a limitation in the WikiMedia software but at least it is the one editor option that should be available regardless of device or browser used. It is basically a limited version of HTML and is harder to learn than the other editors and takes longer and I know I wouldn't want to use it on my iPhone. But now that I'm used to it, I find it is clearer to see what I'm doing in wikitext than if I were able to use the other editors...I just have to be able to follow my coding and be careful with it and preview before submitting so I can fix my code if needed.

Others may have a choice of editor though they will have a default, which is the Visual editor, unless you select something different in your Preferences. (Community Central also has a nice page on posting, though it only briefly covers quoting, and an Intro to Mobile page that might help with iOS and Android questions.)

To illustrate how wikitext can make one's editing clearer, this is what 4paws' 2nd reply (reply #4 if you look at the history page) looks like in wikitext:

4paws wrote: Redbeard99 wrote: 4paws wrote: I have seen other posts where it looks like a part was highlighted and quoted. So I think there must be a way to do that. Like this ^^^^^ its easy, just have to look in the right place. If you hover over the post of interest it comes up with some options in the BOTTOM RIGHT of the post. (Quote and More) You can click on the "Quote" button and it opens up the editor for you at the bottom of the whole post thread with all the text of the original in 'a blue box' ... you then scroll down and start your reply Like this???? What I am saying is that even the blue box can be edited down. Oh and its possible on the ipad to do the 'quote' part but the editing is a bit tricky.. Well it is for me anyway, i hate editing on an Ipad. It may seem confusing and it is certainly long but you see how there are 3 instances of the div quote and /div coding (the 1st to start the coding and the 2nd to end it)? If you accidentally place some of your reply verbiage inside the one of these segments, you can correct this by simply cutting it from that location, add a line break after the last end code, and paste your verbiage after the line break. Also, quote start code always runs most recent to earliest. In 4paws' reply, the 1st quote start code and the 3rd (last) end code refer to her final reply (the error in the coding) and the 2nd start code and 2nd end code refer to Red's reply and the 3rd start code and the 1st end code refer to 4paws' original response. So another way of correcting the problem would be by deleting that initial start code and the last end code.