Don’t edit any theme files directly. To make changes to the CSS, be sure that you have a child theme set up or use the jetpack plug-in custom CSS option.
Then you can make modifications that won’t be erased when WP is updated.
Thanks. But is there a specific entry to modify? I seem to recall three entires that relate to blockquote. Or just make it general like this:
blockquote
{
some changes
}
Andrew Nevins
(@anevins)
WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
Do you want to change it within a specific entry?
No, I want all blockquotes to be affected in pages. I’m using WP for a mostly static website, but I do allow comments on pages.
I have experimented with this CSS:
blockquote {
font: 14px/22px normal helvetica, sans-serif;
margin-top: 10px;
margin-bottom: 10px;
margin-left: 50px;
padding-left: 15px;
border-left: 3px solid #ccc;
}
and it works nicely in pages, but not sure yet how it works in comments and blog posts. Will tinker further.
Andrew Nevins
(@anevins)
WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
If there are no styles overriding it, then it will work on all instances within entries, posts, etc.
If you are not already using it, Firebug is a great tool for working with CSS — it will show you which styles are affecting a given area or element on a page. You may need to use more specific CSS selectors to target some instances of the blockquote.
http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css_selectors.asp