# Site has removed \ tags **URL:** \ **Category:** Site Feedback\ **Created:** [October 11, 2025, 3:04am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/site-has-removed-blockquote-tags/204239 "2025-10-11T03:04:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![RandomTroll](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/randomtroll/32/12184_2.png) [@RandomTroll](https://community.cartalk.com/u/RandomTroll)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2025, 1:03am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/site-has-removed-blockquote-tags/204239/21 "2025-10-14T01:03:14Z")
> [@ChrisTheTireWhisperer](#): > > I tapped on “this is blockquoted”. Nothing happened. Blockquoting demarcates a section of a web page, not contains a URI. > [@VOLVO-V70](#): > > Maybe Random should just stop linking stuff that is all over the web The link is irrelevant. > [@davesmopar](#): > > You do realize if your look to the right while making a post that you can see how it will pos The site has stopped working that way for me. Instead I get a pop-down and no way to see the rendered text. And the problem happens when I edit a post: as soon as I open the edit the tags disappear. > [@ChrisTheTireWhisperer](#): > > it seems in RandomTroll’s case it’s simply a syntax error. No. > [@ChrisTheTireWhisperer](#): > > They admitted themself that they typed it in manually, all the more prone to leaving out a ‘\<‘ or a ‘/’ or whatever. If I left out only 1 or 2 characters the rest of the intended tag would show as plain text. > [@ChrisTheTireWhisperer](#): > > knowing my syntactical incompetence, would never even _attempt_ to type it all manually! That’s you. ---
**Author:** ![RandomTroll](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/randomtroll/32/12184_2.png) [@RandomTroll](https://community.cartalk.com/u/RandomTroll)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2025, 1:04am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/site-has-removed-blockquote-tags/204239/22 "2025-10-14T01:04:45Z")
This is a test. > This is blockquoted text. This isn’t. ---
**Author:** ![RandomTroll](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/randomtroll/32/12184_2.png) [@RandomTroll](https://community.cartalk.com/u/RandomTroll)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2025, 1:07am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/site-has-removed-blockquote-tags/204239/23 "2025-10-14T01:07:55Z")
This is a test.\*This is blockquoted italicized text.\*This isn’t. ---
**Author:** ![JoeMario](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3bc359/32.png) [@JoeMario](https://community.cartalk.com/u/JoeMario)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2025, 1:13am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/site-has-removed-blockquote-tags/204239/24 "2025-10-14T01:13:46Z")
When I use what RandomTroll provided, which was: `
This is blockquoted text.
This isn’t.` I get the following, which looks like it’s working correctly: > This is blockquoted text. This isn’t. [Update] I edited this post to see if it would erase any of my above blockquote tags. Nothing I can see got erased. ---
**Author:** ![ChrisTheTireWhisperer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/christhetirewhisperer/32/34798_2.png) [@ChrisTheTireWhisperer](https://community.cartalk.com/u/ChrisTheTireWhisperer)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2025, 1:22am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/site-has-removed-blockquote-tags/204239/25 "2025-10-14T01:22:28Z")
I’m still trying to wrap (what’s left of!) my brain around this concept of a “block quote”. Following is a quote from a Car & Driver 1982 Review of four GT-trim levels, including the 3rd Gen Camaro: “When you drive a Z28, there is one engineering breakthrough that slaps you right in the face: this Camaro is _not_ a committee car.” Is that what y’all are talking about? ---
**Author:** ![RandomTroll](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/randomtroll/32/12184_2.png) [@RandomTroll](https://community.cartalk.com/u/RandomTroll)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2025, 1:23am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/site-has-removed-blockquote-tags/204239/26 "2025-10-14T01:23:30Z")
I tried that, and it worked as you report. In the first place I had to edit an already-posted message. When I opened the edit the trailing blockquote tag disappeared. In the second place the website copies invisible tags so one can’t merely copy and paste. I haven’t figured out exactly what conditions make it happen. I’m still working on it. ---
**Author:** ![RandomTroll](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/randomtroll/32/12184_2.png) [@RandomTroll](https://community.cartalk.com/u/RandomTroll)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2025, 1:26am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/site-has-removed-blockquote-tags/204239/27 "2025-10-14T01:26:10Z")
No. HTML allows one to mark a section of a web page to indicate that the whole thing is a quote, to aid distinguishing a quote of a simple sentence. Different browsers render it differently. This site renders it with a light-gray background color and a vertical bar on the left ---
**Author:** ![ChrisTheTireWhisperer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/christhetirewhisperer/32/34798_2.png) [@ChrisTheTireWhisperer](https://community.cartalk.com/u/ChrisTheTireWhisperer)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2025, 1:31am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/site-has-removed-blockquote-tags/204239/28 "2025-10-14T01:31:50Z")
I think I know what one looks like, as demonstrated by JoeMario and others, above. I couldn’t create one though even if someone elses hand was on top of mine, lol! ---
**Author:** ![cdaquila](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/cdaquila/32/18089_2.png) [@cdaquila](https://community.cartalk.com/u/cdaquila)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2025, 7:31am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/site-has-removed-blockquote-tags/204239/29 "2025-10-14T07:31:54Z")
Hello, noting that I’ve seen this but I can see there’s some experimenting happening to refine the problem…but is anybody else having this difficulty? ---
**Author:** ![ChrisTheTireWhisperer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/christhetirewhisperer/32/34798_2.png) [@ChrisTheTireWhisperer](https://community.cartalk.com/u/ChrisTheTireWhisperer)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2025, 7:43am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/site-has-removed-blockquote-tags/204239/30 "2025-10-14T07:43:20Z")
> [@cdaquila](#): > > but is anybody else having this difficulty? I just test-quoted you using the built-in Quote feature of this forum. Does that count as a ‘block quote’? Or am I just an outdated block-head? 😂 ---
**Author:** ![davesmopar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/davesmopar/32/41750_2.png) [@davesmopar](https://community.cartalk.com/u/davesmopar)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2025, 1:54pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/site-has-removed-blockquote-tags/204239/31 "2025-10-14T13:54:37Z")
> [@RandomTroll](#): > > > [@davesmopar](#): > > > > You do realize if your look to the right while making a post that you can see how it will pos > > The site has stopped working that way for me. Instead I get a pop-down and no way to see the rendered text. And the problem happens when I edit a post: as soon as I open the edit the tags disappear. ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/original/3X/9/5/95bf6fd75c754e2a28f2f87953ddca76c56f6a1e.png) You mean you are not getting the side by side like above?? Easy, see (below pic) the big A right below your avatar and or the M with the down arrow, click one (dealers choice) and you to will have the side by side again… ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/original/3X/e/5/e5c9402df97a1bf1f069a2f1bd10cb13654eee2f.png) BTW, this was addressed recently in another thread… If you are talking about something else (side by side), then again, screen shot it and you might have better luck getting help… ---
**Author:** ![RandomTroll](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/randomtroll/32/12184_2.png) [@RandomTroll](https://community.cartalk.com/u/RandomTroll)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2025, 1:27am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/site-has-removed-blockquote-tags/204239/32 "2025-10-19T01:27:48Z")
I can give you an exact case I’ve tried to reduce but haven’t successfully. Go to the thread about the First Brands bankruptcy, find my quote from NY Times, notice that the blockquote ends before the URI. Open it for editing: the closing blockquote tag disappears and the entire message is now blockquoted. I noticed because it only happens if I re-open a message for editing, but not all messages. ---
**Author:** ![davesmopar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/davesmopar/32/41750_2.png) [@davesmopar](https://community.cartalk.com/u/davesmopar)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2025, 11:49am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/site-has-removed-blockquote-tags/204239/33 "2025-10-19T11:49:36Z")
> [@RandomTroll](#): > > Go to the thread about the First Brands bankruptcy, find my quote from NY Times, Since the lady is a most likely a volunteer on the forum and has a life away from the forum, and probably BUSY, how about being a gentleman and add a link to it so she doesn’t have to take the time to go looking for it… just a thought… ---
**Author:** ![RandomTroll](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/randomtroll/32/12184_2.png) [@RandomTroll](https://community.cartalk.com/u/RandomTroll)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2025, 4:34am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/site-has-removed-blockquote-tags/204239/34 "2025-10-20T04:34:56Z")
I thought she was paid. > [@Major parts supplier bankruptcy](https://community.cartalk.com/t/major-parts-supplier-bankruptcy/204182/38): > > Turns out to be a big Wall Street story: When First Brands, an auto-parts maker, filed for bankruptcy late last month, it was not the sort of event that would typically draw attention in the world's financial capitals. A midsize manufacturer of pumps, filters and other under-the-hood products sold at retailers like AutoZone and Walmart, the company had expanded in recent years and had, it would appear, simply grown too quickly. But now, the company is at the center of swirling milieu on Wall S… ---
**Author:** ![JoeMario](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3bc359/32.png) [@JoeMario](https://community.cartalk.com/u/JoeMario)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2025, 12:59pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/site-has-removed-blockquote-tags/204239/35 "2025-10-20T12:59:12Z")
We still never saw the raw text in your post showing how you were using blockquote. Were you using it to identify a block of text as a quote or for indentation? If you were using it for indentation, that’s been deprecated in HTML5, and the removal of the tag makes sense. Just do a search for both of the following, and you’ll get lots of explanation: ``` "Site has removed tags " ``` and ``` "Is it ok to use blockquote tag for indentation?" ``` ---
**Author:** ![RandomTroll](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/randomtroll/32/12184_2.png) [@RandomTroll](https://community.cartalk.com/u/RandomTroll)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2025, 10:28pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/site-has-removed-blockquote-tags/204239/36 "2025-10-20T22:28:26Z")
> [@JoeMario](#): > > We still never saw the raw text in your post showing how you were using blockquote. > > Were you using it to identify a block of text as a quote or for indentation? I showed it, but showing it doesn’t reveal everything. There are invisible elements that copying copies. I was using it to identify a block of text. It’s up to the browser to treat blockquotes as it wishes. I edit mine to indent the way I want. [Previous page](https://community.cartalk.com/t/site-has-removed-blockquote-tags/204239.md?page=1)