# Quoting stopped working
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/quoting-stopped-working/361267
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [April 10, 2025, 2:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quoting-stopped-working/361267 "2025-04-10T14:56:27Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@patrickemin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/patrickemin)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2025, 2:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quoting-stopped-working/361267/1 "2025-04-10T14:56:27Z")
Hi, tried on Firefox PC and mobile, today, the quote functionality on my Discourse site doesn’t work anymore. Any idea? Thanks.
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### Author:  [@putty](https://meta.discourse.org/u/putty)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2025, 2:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quoting-stopped-working/361267/3 "2025-04-10T14:58:13Z")
Are you referring to the quote tools when you hover or even when you manually enter the quote block in the composer?
`[quote] [/quote] `
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### Author:  [@patrickemin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/patrickemin)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2025, 3:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quoting-stopped-working/361267/4 "2025-04-10T15:00:10Z")
I am selecting the text I want to quote, then I click on the quote link in the mini toolbar that appears. The quote code appears correctly in the answer, then no quote is shown when the answer is published.
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### Author:  [@patrickemin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/patrickemin)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2025, 7:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quoting-stopped-working/361267/5 "2025-04-11T19:43:24Z")
Might be linked to that?
> [@Smart quotes breaking Quote template](https://meta.discourse.org/t/smart-quotes-breaking-quote-template/361294/5):
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> I think this is the issue, in addition to the fact we imitate user input on the textarea on this type of addition to avoid losing the undo history. I believe it can be “solved” with a spellcheck="false" on the element, but it has an obvious downside. What’s causing the issue is the inconsistent quotation, it would work if it had the same style of quotes on both ends – any of these sets can be used: It’s weird that only the second quotation mark got converted when quoting though, both sides…
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### Author:  [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2025, 4:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quoting-stopped-working/361267/7 "2025-04-26T16:33:03Z")
Have you resolved this issue?
Does quoting work here on meta? If not then you might want to try another browser - that post by Renato might be a good lead.
If quoting does work here then the issue is likely a plugin or theme component on your site. Please try going to `https://yoursite/safe-mode` to try accessing your site without plugins or themes and see if it works there. If so, then you need to isolate the problem theme or plugin.
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### Author:  [@Jonathan5](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jonathan5)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2025, 5:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quoting-stopped-working/361267/8 "2025-04-26T17:29:05Z")
Might it be the thing where a quotation of the entire previous post is removed?
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### Author:  [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2025, 5:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quoting-stopped-working/361267/9 "2025-04-26T17:30:26Z")
Yes, that is a clever thought! If you select the entire last post in your reply it will be removed. I am doing that right now.
edit: in this case it’s easy to tell in the revision history what is happening.
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### Author:  [@patrickemin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/patrickemin)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2025, 11:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quoting-stopped-working/361267/10 "2025-04-27T23:23:05Z")
> [@tobiaseigen](#):
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> Have you resolved this issue?
Well yes it works if I do not select all the text.
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### Author:  [@Jonathan5](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jonathan5)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2025, 11:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quoting-stopped-working/361267/11 "2025-04-27T23:57:47Z")
Cool. You can change it using this setting:
> `Remove full quote`
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> Automatically remove quotation if (a) it appears at the start of a post, (b) it is of an entire post, and (c) it is from the immediately preceding post. For details, see [Removal of full quotes from direct replies](https://meta.discourse.org/t/removal-of-full-quotes-from-direct-replies/106857)
See also: [More detail for `remove full quote` setting description](https://meta.discourse.org/t/more-detail-for-remove-full-quote-setting-description/223311)
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### Author:  [@patrickemin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/patrickemin)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2025, 12:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quoting-stopped-working/361267/12 "2025-04-28T00:00:19Z")
Perfect, thanks !
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2025, 12:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quoting-stopped-working/361267/13 "2025-05-28T00:00:42Z")
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