Deleting unintended quotes

[Fourputt]

Every now and then I get an unwanted or unintended quote tagged and I have found no way to get rid of it.  There is no way to delete it in the reply window, and no way of untagging it.  There needs to be a way of somehow disconnecting it or deleting it so that life can go on without it.  I can delete the content, but not the quote box itself.

[Club Rat]

4 minutes ago, Fourputt said:

I can delete the content, but not the quote box itself.

Hold Ctrl and right click, opens a menu to select option to remove quote.

[Golfingdad]

35 minutes ago, Fourputt said:

Every now and then I get an unwanted or unintended quote tagged and I have found no way to get rid of it.  There is no way to delete it in the reply window, and no way of untagging it.  There needs to be a way of somehow disconnecting it or deleting it so that life can go on without it.  I can delete the content, but not the quote box itself.

I feel your pain. :P

Besides what club rat mentioned, you can also do it another way ... Click on, in, or around or hover near the top left corner of the box until you see a small grey box with a sort of cross in it ... Then click that box and press delete.  That works for me.

[billchao]

17 minutes ago, Golfingdad said:

I feel your pain. :P

Besides what club rat mentioned, you can also do it another way ... Click on, in, or around or hover near the top left corner of the box until you see a small grey box with a sort of cross in it ... Then click that box and press delete.  That works for me.

Yea, this.

You can do it on mobile, too. Just make sure you click on the upper part of the quote box (the darker shaded area). If you did it right, the quote box will be highlighted like it's been selected but there is no text editor line inside it, then just delete.

[dkolo]

I've resorted to going into the source code menu and doing it that way. 

Is there any way to bring back the old trash can button for deleting a draft altogether? 

[Fourputt]

Thanks all.  It would be nice if they made it a bit more obvious.

[Abu3baid]

The way I do it on mobile is click under the quote box and just back space a couple times.

[Golfingdad]

7 minutes ago, Abu3baid said:

The way I do it on mobile is click under the quote box and just back space a couple times.

Sometimes when I do that it starts taking me back through internet pages.

[iacas]

54 minutes ago, dkolo said:

I've resorted to going into the source code menu and doing it that way. 

Is there any way to bring back the old trash can button for deleting a draft altogether? 

That trash can never existed on IPB, I don't think.

Can you see the source button? Oh, yeah, that's enabled for Forum Leaders.

23 minutes ago, Fourputt said:

Thanks all.  It would be nice if they made it a bit more obvious.

They're working on it. It's really pretty easy on desktop browsers.

The "+" sign that people are talking about is here:

[dkolo]

8 minutes ago, iacas said:

That trash can never existed on IPB, I don't think.

Can you see the source button? Oh, yeah, that's enabled for Forum Leaders.

They're working on it. It's really pretty easy on desktop browsers.

The "+" sign that people are talking about is here:

I don't think the trash button was ever enabled after the switchover; I was thinking back to the Huddler days. It helped make the "Stop typing, this doesn't need to be posted" decision easier, haha. 

Thanks for the heads up on the cross symbol, that's at least a better way of doing it than messing around in the source.

[Fourputt]

4 hours ago, iacas said:

That trash can never existed on IPB, I don't think.

Can you see the source button? Oh, yeah, that's enabled for Forum Leaders.

They're working on it. It's really pretty easy on desktop browsers.

The "+" sign that people are talking about is here:

All I use is desktop browser - I don't think I've ever made a post from my phone.  On the old site I just dragged to highlight and hit either Backspace or Delete.  Doesn't work here, and there is nothing very intuitive about that plus icon, at least not for me.  It only shows when roll the cursor over the quote, and to me it looks more like a "Move" button.  It even says "Click and drag to move", but I can't make it do anything, not even move.  Ctrl + click does appear to work though.

[iacas]

32 minutes ago, Fourputt said:

All I use is desktop browser - I don't think I've ever made a post from my phone.  On the old site I just dragged to highlight and hit either Backspace or Delete.  Doesn't work here, and there is nothing very intuitive about that plus icon, at least not for me.  It only shows when roll the cursor over the quote, and to me it looks more like a "Move" button.  It even says "Click and drag to move", but I can't make it do anything, not even move.  Ctrl + click does appear to work though.

It does move things, Rick.

I agree it's not intuitive. But that's how you do it.