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A small bit of JavaScript will quickly check over the text, to see if there's enough matching opening and closing quote tags:
[quote] [/quote]As I've noticed a few users quote, then go to edit it (possibly to cut something out?) and then screw up the BBCode resulting in semi-broken looking posts. It will just flag up a quick warning that the formatting is messed up.
Example:
Last edited by Liam Squires-Hand on 11 Feb 2026 at 11:43 am UTC
Absent a WYSIWYG post editor that takes care of keeping the quotes tags balanced at all times, one solution for posts like your example might be auto fixing. If there are quote tags in the post, but one is unclosed, just insert another close immediately after the existing one. I bet in 95% of cases, that's where it belonged anyway.
Last edited by FeRDNYC on 12 Feb 2026 at 4:48 pm UTC
The issue is we cannot just auto-close them, we have no idea where the ending quotes should be. The issue is people manually cutting up quotes and not doing them properly.