The issues all stem from an open
[i] tag in joemikeb's post. Since the original closing
[/i] tag was mistyped, that opening tag had no effect in
his post; but when the quote was incorporated into
your post, a closing
[/i] tag was found. (See
violet circles.)
Yes, you would expect the displayed italics to carry on beyond the quoted snippet, but predicting the specifics of how mangled tags will florf the displayed content has always been well nigh impossible, probably due to the way that the UBB software (or the browser interpreting the HTML code it converts UBB code into) tries to correct the improperly implemented tags.
For instance, in your first screenshot, as further marked up by me, a reasonable inference is that since tags must be nested, but the
[quote][/quote] tags and the de facto
[i][/i
] tags overlap, UBB or browser software attempts to correct this by interpreting the closing
[/i] tag as occurring
inside of the closing
[/quote] tag.
Further analysis is left as an exercise for the reader.
