Title: blockquote fails validation
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# blockquote fails validation

 *  [tom_raftery](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tom_raftery/)
 * (@tom_raftery)
 * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blockquote-fails-validation/)
 * Guys,
 * I was using the blockquote tag to highlight quotes from others in my posts until
   I realised they weren’t validating when I ran my site through the w3c validator.
 * Is there any way to use blockquote in posts and still be valid?
 * Tom

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 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blockquote-fails-validation/#post-194539)
 * Yes.
    `Beelzebub XVI <blockquote>He has described homosexuality as a "tendency"
   towards an "intrinsic moral evil". During the US election campaign, he called
   for pro-choice politicians to be denied Communion.</blockquote>
 * That validates from my site.
    I always start a blockquote on a newline then keep
   it all inline, completing by starting a newline for anything else.
 *  Thread Starter [tom_raftery](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tom_raftery/)
 * (@tom_raftery)
 * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blockquote-fails-validation/#post-194546)
 * Nice one Podz,
 * I’ll try that,
 * Thanks,
 * Tom
 *  Thread Starter [tom_raftery](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tom_raftery/)
 * (@tom_raftery)
 * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blockquote-fails-validation/#post-194674)
 * Excellent Podz – that worked. Thanks again.
 * Is that documented anywhere, do you know?
 * Tom
 *  [fatalcure](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fatalcure/)
 * (@fatalcure)
 * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blockquote-fails-validation/#post-194676)
 * i still get error
 *  Thread Starter [tom_raftery](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tom_raftery/)
 * (@tom_raftery)
 * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blockquote-fails-validation/#post-194714)
 * Are you starting the opening blockquote tag on a new line and starting anything,
   after the closing blockquote tag, on a new line?
 *  [Lorelle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lorelle/)
 * (@lorelle)
 * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blockquote-fails-validation/#post-194720)
 * Double space and then start the blockquote tag. And then I recommend, for consistency
   more than anything else, double space after the blockquote.
 *  [Lorelle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lorelle/)
 * (@lorelle)
 * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blockquote-fails-validation/#post-194721)
 * fatalcure: Make sure you have double spaces, like described above, before and
   after the blockquote. On a rare occassion, WordPress’ auto format feature will
   put:
 * `<p><blockquote>blah blah</p></blockquote>`
 * or something like that. It must be paid out at the max:
 * `<p><blockquote>blah blah</blockquote></p>`
 * Or in a way that the paragraph tags aren’t even there. It’s the order of things
   that is probably screwing you up.
 *  [TH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/th/)
 * (@th)
 * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blockquote-fails-validation/#post-195240)
 * This doesn’t fix my page. I have validation errors on all blockquotes and they
   stay there no matter what I do in terms of line breaks. Tried all combinations;
   single double, double in front, single in back and vice verca.
 * Any other suggestions? Please?
 * [http://memag.cookiefactory.no/](http://memag.cookiefactory.no/)
 * P.S. This has to qualify as a bug, right? Since it is appears in every blockquote
   like that?
    Using WP 1.5.1
 *  [Lorelle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lorelle/)
 * (@lorelle)
 * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blockquote-fails-validation/#post-195241)
 * In the source code, I find this:
 * `solution.
    <blockquote>“After reading a story......to the rescue?”</blockquote
   > SHHH, the Society.....
 * Since I can’t see your actual post code, this tells me that you have only put
   one line break between the paragraph above and the one below the blockquote. 
   If you did put two lines between the blockquotes, then try three between them…
   why not?
 * Also, are you using Textile or Markup or any of the markup and formatting plugins?
   That might be causing a problem too.
 * And if you can’t figure out why it is doing this, try putting paragraph codes
   around the paragraph before and after the blockquote, and no spaces between them,
   and see if this makes a difference. Just trying to see what works.
 * And this isn’t a bug so much as WordPress’ autoformat trying to read your mind.
 *  [TH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/th/)
 * (@th)
 * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blockquote-fails-validation/#post-195242)
 * Yes, I can feel that autoformat thing reading my mind right now.
 * Didn’t mean to confuse you there; yes I removed the double space again after 
   I tried it and it didn’t work, so as not to drift too far away from how it originally
   was.
 * Textile was the problem! You solved it for me. And fast too! That was the quickest
   reply I have ever seen to a post. I am very happy now. And grateful! Thank you!

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