Why won't lang entry show in sub-template?

[hansolo]

(10-10-2015 09:27 PM)leefish Wrote:  The title and the span are not the same string. Was that intentional? do either show?

No neither show. Title seems to be the tag that shows on mouseover. I just copied the way the 'quote' button works.

Code:

<a href="newreply.php?tid={$tid}&amp;replyto={$post['pid']}" title="{$lang->postbit_quote}" class="postbit_quote"><span>{$lang->postbit_button_quote}</span></a>

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