The problem with the quote button

• Gail Shaw

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  April 3, 2009 at 3:21 am

  #201780

  Think I've finally figured out what sometimes makes the quote button quote the wrong post.

  Necessary sequence of events:

  1) View a thread. Wait for browser to finish loading completely

  2) Someone else replies to that thread

  3) Click the 'quote' button. When the reply screen loads, the wrong post will be quoted, typically the one before or after the required one

  My guess is that the javascript on the button is doing relative addressing of posts. Should be no need for that, all the posts have a unique ID already.

  Steve, can you flag this to the devs to check. It's irritating and it tends to happen on the busier threads at busier times.

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• Steve Jones - SSC Editor

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  April 3, 2009 at 7:11 am

  #971515

  Yep, I've noticed that it was an issue when the thread is active, no matter where I've pushed "Quote".

  I have a long email going to InstantASP. Will add this.