Quote Break

[erikbarrett]

Just thought you'd like to know, but the large dash tends to break open quotes. Like so.<br><br><!--QuoteBegin--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> </td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> And it breaks right here: <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br><span style='color:#64008d'>Mod edit: closed QUOTE tag</span>

[Richard K Niner]

Forget breaking the quote.<br><br>You just broke the page!

[Dr. Doog]

O_o what the heck did you just do!? the quote box is fine...but this page is wacky.<!--QuoteBegin-erikbarrett+ Sep 21 2005, 07:47 PM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (erikbarrett @ Sep 21 2005, 07:47 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Just thought you'd like to know, but the large dash tends to break open quotes.  Like so.<br><br><!--QuoteBegin--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> </td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> And it breaks right here: <br><br>--------------------<br>Here; though currently in lurking.<br><!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd-->

[GhostWay]

Tanj! This is rather confusing. Maybe it can only be broken once?<br><br>The page is broken like a fortune cookie. o_O

[Miles E Traysandor]

<!--emo&;)--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... s/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' /><!--endemo-->?

[Steve the Pocket]

Let's see if a second one of these makes it worse:<br><br><!--QuoteBegin--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> </td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Here's some meaningless text.<br><br>--------------------<br>quoting a signature?<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd-->

[Steve the Pocket]

Nope. What the bleep did you do, man?

[Dr. Doog]

umm... I already tried a second break. :-)

[Caoimhin]

Mees confuzed <!--emo&:blink:--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... /blink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='blink.gif' /><!--endemo--> .

[Dr. Doog]

mees too. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... iggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->

[Zaaphod]

I may be wrong, but it appears there's something slightly wrong with this page. I can't imagine what though. <!--emo&:P--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... tongue.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tongue.gif' /><!--endemo-->

[Dr. Doog]

whatever do you mean? <!--emo&:blink:--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... /blink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='blink.gif' /><!--endemo-->

[Arloest]

Here is the difference between Octan and Erik's little weird quote thingie:<br><br><br><br>Octan's: <!--c1--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>CODE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='CODE'><!--ec1--><br /><br /><!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Here's some meaningless text.<br /><br />--------------------<br />quoting a signature?<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->  </div><!--c2--></td></tr></table> <!--ec2--><br><br>Erik's: <!--c1--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>CODE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='CODE'><!--ec1--><br /><br /><!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->And it breaks right here:&nbsp;  </div><br><div class='signature'>Here; though currently in lurking.</div><!--c2--></td></tr></table> <!--ec2--><br><br>Uh oh! Erik's doesn't have a QuoteEnd! And Erik's sets his up as an actual signature while Octan doesn't. Solved.

[Richard K Niner]

That's what I noticed, too (I confirmed it w/ the quote button at the top). Why the parser actually drew the beginning of the quote instead of writing out the tag, though, is beyond me.

[erikbarrett]

Alright; I've found the offending character.<br><br>It's the HTML entity # 8212, which is the longer length dash. It truncates the post and (as you've seen) messes up the page. Luckily, it only shortens the page once, reguardless of how many are on the page.<br><br>I don't know if it's a problem with BBcode, PHP, or what. You'll need to as the admins on this one.<br><br>Here's the offending character. (minus the spaces)<br><br>& # 8212 ;