Yeah, this is the best way to do it. But note that only the person who made the post you clicked "Reply" on last receives a reply notification. The flag is not generated from the quote tags but sent alongside the post.

The stupid buttons don't work for me either. I will highlight the text I wanted bold, and press the button, and nothing...well, it looks like nothing. What it does is put the opening and closing command boxes at the beginning of the post right next to each other.

And then often times if I click the text, cut it, and past it between them, it still doesn't do the formatting, instead it posts the text as is along with the command boxes as though they were part of my post.

And I sure wish I could the link directly to text thing to. Everywhere else I highlight the text, click the link button, insert the link into the popup box, and done. Not so here.

I feel your pain.

A helpful hint that you give me there. And if this message appears in the thread, I've been able to test successfully. EDIT: Yes! Finally!

Logically, I suppose, but still a shame that you can not do multi-flags.

Strange, in my case usually insert the brackets at the end of the message, no matter where you placed the cursor.

In cutting and marking issue: it may be that in the process you've inadvertently overwritten one of the brackets like this: <b TEXT </b>, or <b> TEXT /b>?

And yes, the link issue is tricky. Best to see how to do is reply a message within which there is a correctly inserted one and observe how it is written

Sorry, my dear friend, I've run out of painkillers too :)

Last bump!

Time to close the thread. Thank you all for participating and for your helpful suggestions!