Quotes in the original css

  • dss

    (@dss)


    19 years, 10 months ago

    Well, it seems i went a little crazy trying to get my blog to look right… i started out with a template from the alexking site (humancondition) and then gave up and started from cratch using the CSS i’d made from the original attempt on a brand new index.php including only the basic WP loop, and the right column < u l > < l i > idea to post links and categories, searches and what not…
    one thing i totally screwed up was the Quoting.
    <cite blockquote=”i’ve seen this great quoting on various sites, and find that it’s actually in the basic template! whatdoyouknowaboutthat!?!?”/>
    trouble is, in my manic frenzy to style my pages, i seem to have completely lost track of which css is is that actually creates this, and what the original code was.
    i’d like to get it back, make it the correct width, and color.
    can anyone help a spaz out?
    dss

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  • shadow

    (@shadow)

    19 years, 10 months ago

    We need to see exactly what you have done in order to offer some help.
    A good lesson learned in this is to do things step by step and always remember to backup as you go.
    It may add a few minutes to your work but worth it in the end.

    Mark (podz)

    (@podz)

    19 years, 10 months ago

    You mean blockquote ?
    blockquote {
    border-top: 2px solid #00f000;
    border-bottom: 2px solid #00f000;
    border-left: 2px solid #00f000;
    border-right: 2px solid #00f000;
    margin-left: 1.5em;
    padding-left: 5px;
    background-color: Silver;
    font-family: Arial;
    }
    Not the default, but it’s close 🙂

    Mark (podz)

    (@podz)

    19 years, 10 months ago

    The default:
    blockquote {
    border-left: 5px solid #ccc;
    margin-left: 1.5em;
    padding-left: 5px;
    }

    Thread Starter dss

    (@dss)

    19 years, 10 months ago

    hmmm…
    maybe i’m wrong.
    i have blockquote working nicely…
    well, perhaps what i mean was never included in the default css.
    know the comments where people Quote one another and apply a cool css to it, like a background graphic of some big ” marks, and a border, or bg color?
    here’s an example
    i assumed that i’d messed it up, and this was a feature which came with WP.
    maybe i’m totaly wrong, as in even more of a spaz than i’d originally thought.
    so then i guess my question isn’t how do i get it back, rather how do i add the “quote” tag and style to my blog?
    dss

    welsper

    (@welsper)

    19 years, 10 months ago

    Really simple! Go to Markku’s page there (ctrl+u to view source in Firefox), then look at his CSS file, and copy all the blockquote style from it. Make sure you grab the image too. Then for all the text you have between

    will look like that.

    Root

    (@root)

    19 years, 10 months ago

    A right click on that blog will show you the quotes are an image.

    Thread Starter dss

    (@dss)

    19 years, 10 months ago

    ok, i figured it out.
    i was totally wrong about having munched something that was included in the original css/template for wp 1.2
    i was talking about the tag

    enter the quote

    here’s the code:
    blockquote {
    width: 460px;
    margin:10px;
    padding:5px 10px;
    color:#000;
    background:#eee url(/folder/location/bg_image.gif) top left no-repeat;
    }
    blockquote p.attributed-to {
    width: 460px;
    text-align:right;
    margin:10px;
    font-style:italic;
    }
    and that approximated it fairly well.
    thanks for indulging me while i fished my brain out of the pond in the back yard.
    dss

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