Title: blockquote css problem
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# blockquote css problem

 *  oudeis
 * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blockquote-css-problem/)
 * I’m having trouble with css and the
 * >  element.
   >  This is my css blockquote {background: #EEEEEE; border-left: 5px
   > solid #ccc; margin-left: 1.5em; padding-left: 5px; font-size: 80%; text-align:
   > justify; } It isn’t applied to the text, however. I am probably doing something
   > silly, but I can’t for the life of me figure out what.

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 *  [jonimueller](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonimueller/)
 * (@jonimueller)
 * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blockquote-css-problem/#post-88098)
 * I hope you are trying to use it in the context of the tag BLOCKQUOTE. That’s 
   the only time that style should be invoked.
    Is there an URL/link where we can
   see this misbehaviour?
 *  Thread Starter Anonymous
 * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blockquote-css-problem/#post-88132)
 * [http://24.54.15.153:9088/wordpress/index.php](http://24.54.15.153:9088/wordpress/index.php)
   
   Yes example html is: The logical nits need nonetheless to be picked.
 * > George W. Bush comes to the G.O.P convention on the heels of victory in the
   > Najaf primary. . . Not quite an electoral “primary”–the al-Sadr forces prefer
   > bullets to ballots–but the result was political. Nobody now doubts who is the
   > most powerful Shiite leader. And though he cannot publicly express his gratititude
   > to the foreign soldiers who made possible his victory over the abusers of sanctuary,
   > the ayatollah is on the side of a general election soon.
 * Apparantly, according to Safire, Grand Ayatollah Sistani has joined the Republican
   party! Even assuming that what Safire
 *  Thread Starter Anonymous
 * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blockquote-css-problem/#post-88133)
 * Looking at it, I realize that it does in fact apply the margins, but not the 
   background, font, text-align or borders.
    Hmmmmm. . … Thanks for any help
 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blockquote-css-problem/#post-88134)
 * In your css, just above the blockquote part, is a } all on it’s own
    Just a }
   Kill it 🙂

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