# Quoting a post with multiple quotes fails
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/quoting-a-post-with-multiple-quotes-fails/26910
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [March 28, 2015, 3:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quoting-a-post-with-multiple-quotes-fails/26910 "2015-03-28T15:04:30Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@GeertJohan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/GeertJohan)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2015, 3:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quoting-a-post-with-multiple-quotes-fails/26910/1 "2015-03-28T15:04:31Z")
Lets say I have a post that quotes another post multiple times, quoting that post results in an error and markup code being displayed.
Lets place a second line of text here so I can create an example.
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### Author:  [@GeertJohan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/GeertJohan)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2015, 3:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quoting-a-post-with-multiple-quotes-fails/26910/2 "2015-03-28T15:05:25Z")
> [@GeertJohan](#):
>
> Lets say I have a post that quotes another post multiple times, quoting that post results in an error and markup code being displayed.
Okay, so how does that even work?
> [@GeertJohan](#):
>
> Lets place a second line of text here so I can create an example.
Let’s see..
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### Author:  [@GeertJohan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/GeertJohan)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2015, 3:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quoting-a-post-with-multiple-quotes-fails/26910/3 "2015-03-28T15:06:31Z")
> [@GeertJohan](#):
>
> Okay, so how does that even work?
>
> > [@GeertJohan](#):
> >
> > Lets place a second line of text here so I can create an example.
>
> Let’s see..
This is the problem.. The first quote-in-quote is completely omitted, and the second quote-in-quote is not rendered properly.
**-edit: The quote in this post is unmodified what is added when quoting post 2 by doing Reply \> Quote whole post. Try it!**
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### Author:  [@GeertJohan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/GeertJohan)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2015, 3:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quoting-a-post-with-multiple-quotes-fails/26910/4 "2015-03-28T15:11:41Z")
> [@GeertJohan](#):
>
> > [@GeertJohan](#):
> >
> > foo
>
> bar
Ofcourse a quote-in-quote should look like this. The problem seems to occur when there are multiple quotes being quoted..
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### Author:  [@thangngoc89](https://meta.discourse.org/u/thangngoc89)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2015, 3:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quoting-a-post-with-multiple-quotes-fails/26910/5 "2015-03-28T15:44:47Z")
> [@GeertJohan](#):
>
> Okay, so how does that even work?
>
> GeertJohan:
> Lets place a second line of text here so I can create an example.
>
> Let’s see..
How did you make. Above is what I receive when I select your post
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### Author:  [@elberet](https://meta.discourse.org/u/elberet)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2015, 7:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quoting-a-post-with-multiple-quotes-fails/26910/6 "2015-03-28T19:10:00Z")
The repro looks a bit different:
### This works:
```plaintext
[quote]
same block
[quote]
inner
[/quote]
outer
[/quote]
```
> [@](#):
>
> same block
>
> > [@](#):
> >
> > inner
>
> outer
### This doesn’t:
```plaintext
[quote]
new block
[quote]
inner
[/quote]
outer
[/quote]
```
> [@](#):
>
> new block
>
> > [@](#):
> >
> > inner
>
> outer
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### Author:  [@GeertJohan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/GeertJohan)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2015, 7:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quoting-a-post-with-multiple-quotes-fails/26910/7 "2015-03-28T19:43:49Z")
@elberet That’s not the problem I’m describing, I think..
What happens is that when you quote a post with two quotes in it, it gets messed up.
The first quote is completely removed. And the second quote is displayed as text.
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### Author:  [@GeertJohan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/GeertJohan)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2015, 7:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quoting-a-post-with-multiple-quotes-fails/26910/8 "2015-03-28T19:47:59Z")
So, I have this:
```
[quote="GeertJohan, post:2, topic:26910"]
Okay, so how does that even work?
[quote="GeertJohan, post:1, topic:26910, full:true"]
Lets place a second line of text here so I can create an example.
[/quote]
Let's see..
[/quote]
```
But I expect this:
```
[quote="GeertJohan, post:2, topic:26910"]
[quote="GeertJohan, post:1, topic:26910"]
Lets say I have a post that quotes another post multiple times, quoting that post results in an error and markup code being displayed.
[/quote]
Okay, so how does that even work?
[quote="GeertJohan, post:1, topic:26910"]
Lets place a second line of text here so I can create an example.
[/quote]
Let's see..
[/quote]
```
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### Author:  [@elberet](https://meta.discourse.org/u/elberet)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2015, 7:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quoting-a-post-with-multiple-quotes-fails/26910/9 "2015-03-28T19:56:57Z")
Hm, these are probably two distinct bugs. One: the parser doesn’t pick up nested quotes under certain circumstances, and two: the quote button in the editor toolbar omits part of the quoted message.
Specifically, a quick test on try shows that it only drops a quote if it is the first thing in the quoted message — which is most likely actually a _feature_ because quoting quotes, especially starting a quotation with a nested quote, is mostly unwanted noise…
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### Author:  [@GeertJohan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/GeertJohan)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2015, 1:54am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quoting-a-post-with-multiple-quotes-fails/26910/10 "2015-03-29T01:54:05Z")
Hmm partially yes. But on the other hand: it should be up to the user to only quote what is required to create context. And deleting is much easier than adding, and less prone to errors.. Its also a bit strange that the first quote isnt copied, but the second one is.. They could both be important, but they could also both be noise..
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### Author:  [@TechnoBear](https://meta.discourse.org/u/TechnoBear)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2015, 2:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quoting-a-post-with-multiple-quotes-fails/26910/11 "2015-04-01T14:58:56Z")
This looks like the same issue I reported a while back:
[https://meta.discourse.org/t/formatting-issue-if-quoted-post-contains-more-than-one-quote/20355](https://meta.discourse.org/t/formatting-issue-if-quoted-post-contains-more-than-one-quote/20355)
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2015, 12:01am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quoting-a-post-with-multiple-quotes-fails/26910/12 "2015-04-02T00:01:38Z")