Quoting on a 'phone

[Jdsk]

Problem with attribution of quotes when using a 'phone. Reported here:
viewtopic.php?p=1732879#p1732879

Jonathan

[admin]

What phone?
What browser?

[DevonDamo]

What phone?
What browser?

I think I've just been able to replicate this glitch on a laptop (Windows 10, MS Edge). Have a try yourself: if you quote the following post by dmrcycle and add a comment beneath it, your comment will become highlighted as quoted text as though it were dmrcycle who had written it.:
viewtopic.php?p=1732874#p1732874

I tried it by clicking on 'quote' and cutting and pasting everything into a new thread in the 'test' forum and adding the word 'Test' below the quoted text. The result can be seen here:
viewtopic.php?p=1733078#p1733078

(I've tried the same test with other posts, and this glitch didn't happen.)

[admin]

OK, I can reproduce.

For some reason there are three open-quote tags, but only two close-quote tags. So your reply ends up being included in the outer-most quote.

You can work around it by adding a third [/quote] before your reply, but this is a bug.

I'll investigate further.

[Jdsk]

Thanks.

It's just great to have such rapid and constructive responses.

Jonathan

[DevonDamo]

OK, I can reproduce.

For some reason there are three open-quote tags, but only two close-quote tags. So your reply ends up being included in the outer-most quote.

You can work around it by adding a third before your reply, but this is a bug.

I'll investigate further.

Thanks very much. (And you'll excuse my little meta-joke.)

[admin]

The problem is that phpBB isn't checking for matching pairs of open/close quote tags in the quoted text. It's just wrapping another quote around it.

If there's a missing close-quote, or too many open-quotes, the quote levels get messed up. Anyone quoting the messed-up message will find their reply goes into the quote, unless they spot the lack of matching and add the close-quote manually.

A fix would be to count open and close quotes in the quoted text, and add additional close-quote tags as needed before populating the message for reply. I'll see if anyone else has had this and perhaps fixed it.

To work around: use the "Preview" function to check your message looks sensible, and if the quoting is wrong count the open and close tags and add tags to keep them balanced. In this situation adding a [/quote] before your reply would sort it out.

[DevonDamo]

To work around....

That's a good enough interim solution - will link to this thread when someone's getting tied up with this.

[thirdcrank]

I don't see it as a work round. It's the way it works. I hope the forum Admin won't feel obliged to try and do anything about it

[Jdsk]

The workaround was proposed because there's a bug.

The bug has already been tracked down by the Admin:
viewtopic.php?t=153649

Jonathan

[Tiggertoo]

Good grief!!! It's a good job there isn't anything really serious going on around the world right now.