... then highlight the text and then click on the blockquote button that is located above the text box.
Or if you do not want to highlight the text you can click on the blockquote button 'before' where the text begins and then click on the button again 'after' the text.

p.s. There are no mods here anymore.
Forums have Hosts that 'lock' OPs that do not conform to the SOP.

There is a 'self-delete' link in the bottom right-hand corner of your OP.

Voice for Peace

(13,141 posts)

3. AS I type this, below this OP headline are a series of "buttons" - b, i u, link, etc.

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Mon Oct 8, 2012, 07:07 PM

Oct 2012

Highlight the text, then hit the blockquote button.

Highlight the text, then hit the blockquote button.
Highlight the text, then hit the blockquote button.
Highlight the text, then hit the blockquote button.
Highlight the text, then hit the blockquote button.

Preview, or Post
Voila

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)

4. Privately, and only after 5pm

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Mon Oct 8, 2012, 07:12 PM

Oct 2012

jsmirman

(4,507 posts)

5. You also may want to check out the "excerpt" button

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Mon Oct 8, 2012, 07:14 PM

Oct 2012

it looks much, much cooler, and is much clearer than the blockquote function.

Just figured it out myself the other day.

Generally, fyi, I think this would go under "welcome and help."

But I'm sure a host will make that point shortly.

Tx4obama

(36,974 posts)

7. There is a difference between what the excerpt and blockquote buttons do

Reply to jsmirman (Reply #5)

Mon Oct 8, 2012, 07:23 PM

Oct 2012

Example below, ALL the text below has been formatted with the the excerpt button option, the indented paragraph has been formatted with the blockquote button.

Four Key Areas Where Romney’s ‘New’ Foreign Policy Is Identical To Obama

Mitt Romney, who has had trouble differentiating his foreign policy agenda from President Obama’s, gave a speech at the Virginia Military Institute that was designed to draw a contrast between his position and the President’s. Despite some sharp rhetorical criticism, however, Romney failed to develop new policy ideas that were meaningfully distinguishable from current Administration policy. The lack of meaningful difference was particularly evident on four issues:

-snip-

4. Free trade. Romney, arguing that “The President has not signed one new free trade agreement in the past four years,” pledged to increase a push toward trade agreements. Obama has signed new free trade agreements with South Korea, Panama, and Colombia, and Romney didn’t specify what new agreements would be passed in a Romney Administration.

-snip-

Full article here: http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/10/08/973411/four-key-areas-where-romneys-new-foreign-policy-is-identical-to-obama/

surrealAmerican

(11,361 posts)

6. I'm disappointed to see this here ...

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Mon Oct 8, 2012, 07:21 PM

Oct 2012

... mainly because it would make such a charming Meta thread. It gets so contentious there, that it's like a breath of fresh air to see a thread where everybody is being helpful and supportive.

If you haven't typed your quote yet, you can just hit the block quote button that's just above the Message text box. type out or paste the quote, the click the block quote button again if you want to enter other text after your quote.

northoftheborder

(7,572 posts)

8. Thanks for pointing out this feature - will be useful

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Mon Oct 8, 2012, 09:41 PM

Oct 2012

tblue37

(65,358 posts)

9. It looks like no one told you how to do it by hand, so I will, since

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Tue Oct 9, 2012, 10:29 AM

Oct 2012

the by-hand method will also work in other situations, where you do not have a convenient "blockquote" button. (Actually, I never realized we had html buttons on DU--I've been doing everything the slow way, by hand!)

Just use the square brackets to enclose the word "blockquote" before the text you want blockquoted, and the use "/blockquote" within square brackets after the text. (Do NOT put it in quotation marks, though--I just did so because it is a word I am specifying.)
I will do it now, but with angle brackets (so it doesn't actually disappear and create a blockquote):

<blockquote>text text text</blockquote>

It's a good idea to space before and after the blockquote, though, because this program doesn't create the space automatically as some others do.

On a site where they use angle brackets (< &gt instead of square brackets, you have to put the blockquote tag inside angle brackets, of course.