Title: Blockquote
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Blockquote

 *  [Ahenry1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ahenry1/)
 * (@ahenry1)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blockquote-3-2/)
 * Hi everyone,
 * I am trying to change the margins and spacing of my blockquote so that the lines
   and background are in line with the text.
 * How can I do that? See what it looks like below now:
 * [http://img.myph.us/OEY.png](http://img.myph.us/OEY.png)
 * Big thanks for your advice.

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 *  Thread Starter [Ahenry1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ahenry1/)
 * (@ahenry1)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blockquote-3-2/#post-1994689)
 * Here is an example of the blockquote in action:
 * [http://astleyhenry.com/2009/10/19/the-war-on-drugs-is-a-sick-joke/](http://astleyhenry.com/2009/10/19/the-war-on-drugs-is-a-sick-joke/)
 * I would like the quote to be more centred with the background and lines stopping
   where the text stops.
 *  [Enis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/en-is/)
 * (@en-is)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blockquote-3-2/#post-1994978)
 * Do you mean like this?
    [http://img.myph.us/G3c.png](http://img.myph.us/G3c.png)
 * You can achieve this by editing your ‘style.css’ file, look for **blockquote **
   and add a **P element**.
 * Change your original blockquote to this;
 *     ```
       blockquote {
       padding: 0 40px 0 40px;
       background-color: #F7F7F7;
       }
       ```
   
 * and add this to your css file;
 *     ```
       blockquote p {
       text-align: justify;
       margin: 0 auto;
       border-bottom: 1px solid red;
       border-top: 1px solid red;
       }
       ```
   
 * That’s it 🙂

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 * [blockquote](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/blockquote/)
 * [margins](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/margins/)

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 * Last activity: [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blockquote-3-2/#post-1994978)
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