I Give Up - How Can You Remove Quotes on Mobile?

[Beale]

The title says it all really.
In a few different browsers on mobile, there is no Earthly way to remove quotes from posts, as far as I can tell.

On Desktop, it is as simple as right-clicking the quote box.
On Mobile, I have tried double-tap, hold-press, swipe, pinch, you name it!

Edited April 14, 2016 by Beale

[RainDreamer]

Tap it, look for the tiny arrow box at top left corner where you use to grab the quote box and move it around. Tap that one again, and back space. I also do this for desktop, since I didn't know about the ctrl-rightclick menu.

Edited April 14, 2016 by RainDreamer

[Beale]

1 hour ago, RainDreamer said:

Tap it, look for the tiny arrow box at top left corner where you use to grab the quote box and move it around. Tap that one again, and back space. I also do this for desktop, since I didn't know about the ctrl-rightclick menu.

Doesn't seem to work for me. I have tapped that icon, but backspace does not do anything.

Edited April 14, 2016 by Beale

[legoclone09]

I've done it by deleting all text in the quote, goin g outside the quote and under, then pressing delete. I'm on ky iPad on the desktop site, though.

[Beale]

20 hours ago, legoclone09 said:

I've done it by deleting all text in the quote, goin g outside the quote and under, then pressing delete. I'm on ky iPad on the desktop site, though.

Hah! this seems to crash Firefox on mobile for me, every time  
Thanks for the tip, but doesn't seem to work on the other browsers, is this on Safari? 

[legoclone09]

10 minutes ago, Beale said:

Hah! this seems to crash Firefox on mobile for me, every time  
Thanks for the tip, but doesn't seem to work on the other browsers, is this on Safari? 

I use Firefox as well, on iOS. It should work on Safari as well.

[Beale]

7 minutes ago, legoclone09 said:

I use Firefox as well, on iOS. It should work on Safari as well.

How peculiar!

I should have mentioned, my problems are on Android.

[Dman979]

2 minutes ago, Beale said:

I should have mentioned, my problems are on Android.

Yeah, I was having the same problem yesterday. It's a PITA.

Edited April 15, 2016 by Dman979

[Cydonian Monk]

Even on iOS it's no cakewalk. You have to tap your finger and/or thumb on the exact pixel where that top-left arrow box lives and then hit backspace/delete. Most of the time even that fails.

I do wonder if there isn't a better solution available in the IPS options, even if it's just making that arrow box thing larger. 

[legoclone09]

52 minutes ago, Cydonian Monk said:

Even on iOS it's no cakewalk. You have to tap your finger and/or thumb on the exact pixel where that top-left arrow box lives and then hit backspace/delete. Most of the time even that fails.

I do wonder if there isn't a better solution available in the IPS options, even if it's just making that arrow box thing larger. 

Yeah, that is hard to do even on my iPad Mini. I did get it to work, though.

[regex]

I generally have to remove all text from the quote box and then go through some random song and dance of putting the cursor under the quote and tapping the delete key, which only works like half the time, then I have to try it again.

These new forums are a serious pain in the rear.

Edited April 15, 2016 by regex

[YNM]

On 4/14/2016 at 6:22 PM, Beale said:

The title says it all really.
In a few different browsers on mobile, there is no Earthly way to remove quotes from posts, as far as I can tell.

On Desktop, it is as simple as right-clicking the quote box.
On Mobile, I have tried double-tap, hold-press, swipe, pinch, you name it!

Clear the browser cache. Often the case when I cancel my intention to reply without deleting the content, or when it breaks the browser.

Still, some improvements that quotes now works sliightly better, than the previous random walk typing (like, if you want to type the word "angry", the "a" will be below the quote, "n" will be two line above it and so on. Can't be deleted either.)

[RainDreamer]

On 4/14/2016 at 6:55 PM, RainDreamer said:

Tap it, look for the tiny arrow box at top left corner where you use to grab the quote box and move it around. Tap that one again, and back space. I also do this for desktop, since I didn't know about the ctrl-rightclick menu.

I was doing this with chrome on android, in case that is needed.