Miscellaneous Hacks - Better Quote Box (just like on vbulletin.org)

Upload this image to your image/misc folder:

Add this to your Additional CSS:

PHP Code:


.quote {
    margin:15px 10px;
    background: url(images/misc/q.gif) 0 0 no-repeat;
    padding-left:25px}
blockquote.bq {
    font: italic 10pt verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
    border-left:3px solid #ccc; 
    margin:0px;
    padding:0 5px} 


then replace templates bbcode_quote and blog_bbcode_quotewith this code:

PHP Code:

<div style="margin:3px; margin-top:5px; <if condition="$show['iewidthfix']">width: 100%;</if>">
    <table cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%">
    <tr>
        <td><div class="quote" style="margin-bottom:2px">
            <if condition="$show['username']">
                <div class="smallfont" style="margin-bottom:2px">
                    <phrase 1="$username">$vbphrase[originally_posted_by_x]</phrase>
                    <if condition="$postid"><a href="showthread.php?$session[sessionurl]p=$postid#post$postid" rel="nofollow"><img class="inlineimg" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/viewpost.gif" border="0" alt="$vbphrase[view_post]" /></a></if>
                </div>
                <blockquote class="bq" style="font-style:italic">$message</blockquote>
            <else />
                <blockquote class="bq" style="font-style:italic">$message</blockquote>
            </if>
        </div></td>
    </tr>
    </table>
</div> 


Done!


And here is what it looks like:

Originally Posted by vietfancy

This code can be use for many versions, not just 3.6.8 . Have fun people.

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If you want to have quote at the end then upload this image to misc folder and use this css instead.

PHP Code:

.quote {
    margin:15px 10px;
    background: url(images/misc/q.gif) 0 0 no-repeat;
    padding-left:25px}
blockquote.bq {
    background: url(images/misc/q1.gif) no-repeat bottom right;
    font: italic 10pt verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
    border-left:3px solid #ccc; 
    margin:0px;
    padding:0 5px} 


[princeedward]

thanks for sharing this...

[chimaira]

Worked for me. Cheers

[BigDog56]

Works for me too! Thank you!

[Derek Chai]

Thanks!

[alqloob alsahya]

nice thank"S

[kiFF]

The space between quotes is too big.

http://politicity.net/showpost.php?p=3038&postcount=6

Also, since I added this mod, the code for the quoted text and the new text are automatically moved to the same line. For example:

PHP Code:

[quote]Quoted Text[/quote]New Text 


Instead of:

PHP Code:

[quote]Quoted Text[/quote]

New Text 


If I type the new text on a second line, when I press "Preview", it automatically puts it on the same line. I don't like this because some people like to space their quotes differently to make it easier to read.

EDIT: I think I figured out how to change the spacing in the CSS. However, I still don't know why it won't let you add a space between the quoted text and the new text. Can someone help me please?

[Ozdemir]

thanx ı will try

[ultrmn]

That's great. Thanks very much.

[Pirat3]

did everything you said, does not work on my custom theme. any ideas?

[vietfancy]

Originally Posted by Pirat3

did everything you said, does not work on my custom theme. any ideas?

look into the css and change this images/misc/q.gif and images/misc/q1.gifto fit yours