Just hit the quote button?
I guess you mean Insert Quote. I am a good example of why the newbie forum exists. when I hit the insert quote button all I get is quote /quote,
but if I click insert quote on the topic summary i get "quote author=Maged link=topic=177633.msg1849972#msg1849972 date=1366080408...."
is that the typical way people get the quote attributes?