How to quote a post

First thing: it is not essential to hit reply in someone's post in order to make a new post so please don't do it as a routine.

You only need to quote if you particularly want to respond to a post that is some way back, even on a previous page. But mostly people do it because they want to just address a particular point or two. In this case, you click on the "Reply" button in the bottom right hand corner of the person's post



Then the whole of the person's post is dropped into the message box at the bottom of the page.
If you want to edit that post to leave a particular point or somesuch, then just please be careful that you don't corrupt the coding. Here you can see it in red- only edit text that lies between the to square brackets ] and [