[justice14]

“Report that in Pa.’s early voters were over 50% Republican...by about 10:30 est. I’ll be voting this afternoon.”

Sounds good. What reports?

ps to everyone; How do you put the comment you are replying to in italics? Or is there a quick button to quote someone? Thanks in advance.

[houeto]

How do you put the comment you are replying to in italics?

Surround the comment with these...< i >< / i> without the spaces I put in.

[RedMDer]

‘<@>replying to in italics?</@>’

Replace the @ with i

[metmom]

Use HTML.

Here’s a link...

http://www.davesite.com/webstation/html/

Basically, when you want to make something italics, bold, underlined, or strike out, you use the little side arrows and put the appropriate letter inbetween them.

Like this < i > to start the italics and to end it you use < /i >. For underline you use u, bold use b, to strike out something use s, paragraph uses p.

When doing the HTML, you can’t leave any spaces between the arrows and the letters. It has to be all one continuous sequence, if you get what I mean. If you use spaces, it doesn’t work but it does show up to show people what to do.

If you add HTML to a post you have to use it and mark your paragraphs or it becomes one long run on paragraph. And links, like the one I put in here, don’t automatically work. They only work like this one if you DON’T use HTML.

[Walleye_Walter]

"How do you put the comment you are replying to in italics?"

It's easy. Check out the HTML sandbox at: Learn HTML at FreeRepublic

[grey_whiskers]

ps to everyone; How do you put the comment you are replying to in italics? Or is there a quick button to quote someone? Thanks in advance.

I'll use your post as an example.

When you click the "Post Reply" button, drag the mouse over the portion of their text you want to italicize.

Then do the Control-C to copy it, and put the cursor in the "Your Reply" box on the screen, and hit Control-V to paste that text.

That's the easy part, now comes the tricky part.

You need to enclose their speech in an html italics marker.

To do this, just before their quote, enter the characters :

<i>

and just after their quote, enter the characters:

</i>

So the text of yours in italics above was created by entering the following into the "Your Reply" field:

<i>ps to everyone; How do you put the comment you are replying to in italics? Or is there a quick button to quote someone? Thanks in advance.</i>

If there are paragraphs, you put the following at the end of each paragraph:

<p>

and you put the <i> before the paragraph, and between the text and the </i> after the paragraph and before the <p>, so your text above (if written as a paragraph) would look like this:

<i>ps to everyone; How do you put the comment you are replying to in italics? Or is there a quick button to quote someone? Thanks in advance.</i><p>

Cheers!

[CottonBall]

How do you put the comment you are replying to in italics? Or is there a quick button to quote someone?

I usually copy the part I want to quote before hitting 'reply'. Then paste it when I get to the reply page.

html usings brackets, ie < >. For example, an i in the brackets means italicize, b means bold, u means underline. A backslash / before the command means to turn it off. So /i within the brackets (don't know how to show this without it being interpreted as a command!) means to quit italicizing. To break to a new line, br within the brackets is needed, two of them to make a blank line then put your text on the next line.

You can play around with it using preview to see what it'll look like before posting.