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No, no, no - that's in the reply box. I'm talking about what's under it.
IDK, maybe it's an Apple thing. Or... are you using some kind of mobile device and, additionally, using the mobile version of the forum? If so, maybe it's different. Well, it probably is, but I mean different in this specific way. I've used that a few times, but try very hard not to, because I've found it to be even more counter-intuitive than the "desktop" version, felt that it was missing things as if the developers only added a mobile version as an afterthought and think that mobile devices are just a passing fad or something (or else I simply couldn't find the things, which is certainly possible), and I have trouble learning new ways to do a thing once I've learned how to do it, presumably due to a great many minor(?) head knocks and two major ones. Or age, but it started 31 years ago, so... Plus, if the new/different way is a sh!tty one, then I also just don't want to. <SHRUGS>
Yeah, it does that. IDK if that's an intended behavior or the developers just didn't take that behavior into consideration. But it works(?) that way for me, too. It might be intended behavior - because it doesn't screw with the... er... quote collection, and you can still use the "Insert quotes routine (if you ever find the link/button/IDFK).
Yeah, that's something different. That's for highlighting text and causing the QUOTE tags to surround it. I suppose for people who are too lazy to simply type them in. Like if you copy text and paste it into your message. But it's generic, so it's only marginally useful.
See what I mean?
If you ever feel the need to use something that would ordinarily get parsed, but do not actually want it to be, you can use tags for that. Two of them, actually. No, wait, three (sort of). The PLAIN tags will just put what's enclosed in the message as per normal. Like ;) without making the winking
[CODE]These will place things in a CODE box, which should use monospace font (can be useful)[/CODE]
gives:
Code:These will place things in a CODE box, which should use monospace font (can be useful)
And then there is the PHP tag. Which is sort of like the CODE one. But it adds syntax highlighting, which could be useful (or not, depending on whether you're displaying actual code - or like colors, lol):
PHP:$myvar = 'Hello World!'; for ($i = 0; \$i < 10; \$i++) { echo $myvar . "\n"; }
So most people probably just use either the PLAIN or CODE tags. I like the CODE one for placing http(s) links into a post when (for whatever reason) I don't want them to be parsed as live links. I rarely use the PLAIN one, but it can be useful - it doesn't interfere with the form of the message. As in the above example, it works anywhere, even in the middle of a line, just like the ones for bold, underline, and italic text.
Come to think of it, you probably weren't interested in knowing any of that - so I'll stop typing now.
Yeah, I lost interest when you started talking about code.
But, now I at least know where the Attach files and Insert quotes links are located. And, voilà, now I know how to insert multiple quotes so
, TS. Your ramblings didn't make much sense to me but now I have the answer I was seeking so mucho gracias. 
exactly!