Title: Blockquote styling question
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Blockquote styling question

 *  [jinsan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jinsan/)
 * (@jinsan)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blockquote-styling-question/)
 * Ok, I’ve seen it used on a few blog site, it basically has like a vertical bar
   with a quote in it.
 * Or sometimes it has 2 large, cartoony quotations and in between a quote from 
   the user’s own blog (to emphasise a point) which has the main text wrapped around
   it.
 * Is this a plugin or a built in feature? I don’t know what it’s called but I assumed
   it was a plugin.

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 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blockquote-styling-question/#post-133870)
 * Point us at an example site ?
 *  [NuclearMoose](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nuclearmoose/)
 * (@nuclearmoose)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blockquote-styling-question/#post-133872)
 * I think it’s a CSS-styled blockquote element with a background image.
 *  Thread Starter [jinsan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jinsan/)
 * (@jinsan)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blockquote-styling-question/#post-133884)
 * like here:
 * [http://www.brokenkode.com/archives/im-a-genius/](http://www.brokenkode.com/archives/im-a-genius/)
   
   [http://www.basketball2k.com/site/archives/2005/01/03/amare-stoudemire-50-points/](http://www.basketball2k.com/site/archives/2005/01/03/amare-stoudemire-50-points/)
 * How would I go about recreating something similar, and is it difficult to do?
 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blockquote-styling-question/#post-133909)
 * Difficult ? Not at all – it’s `<blockquote>` in the CSS
 * Why not contact those authors and ask ? Can’t hurt 🙂
 *  [ColdForged](https://wordpress.org/support/users/coldforged/)
 * (@coldforged)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blockquote-styling-question/#post-133925)
 * Remember that it’s generally pretty easy to pull up any site’s CSS and peek under
   the covers. For the site you mentioned, this is his blockquote code:
 * blockquote {
 *  background: #e7fbfa url(images/quotes.gif) no-repeat top left;
 *  padding: 10px 30px;
 * }
 *  Thread Starter [jinsan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jinsan/)
 * (@jinsan)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blockquote-styling-question/#post-133964)
 * ah so it’s not automatically generated, but the user actually decides what to
   blockquote and it then outputs whatever is set in the css?
 * thanks guys it’s just a nice lil gimmicky thing i liked
 *  [Stephen Yeargin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yearginsm/)
 * (@yearginsm)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blockquote-styling-question/#post-133986)
 * Also, for a trick to add that second pair of quotes to a blockquote, add a `<
   div>"Your quote."</div>` inside the `<blockquote>` tags. In your stylesheet:
 * `blockquote {
    margin: 5px 28px 5px 28px; padding: 0; color: #D0A4B8; background:
   transparent url(/images/quote-l.gif) left top no-repeat; }
 * `blockquote div {
    padding: 2px 50px 2px 50px; background: transparent url(/images/
   quote-r.gif) right bottom no-repeat; }
 *  Thread Starter [jinsan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jinsan/)
 * (@jinsan)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blockquote-styling-question/#post-134019)
 * will i need to all this in the index.php? Or should the simple job of using blockquotes
   within a post call the stylesheet to load the img?
 *  [Erwin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/erwin/)
 * (@erwin)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blockquote-styling-question/#post-134021)
 * No, you need to put this in the stylesheet of the theme your blog uses. The <
   blockquote > tag will look there.
 *  Thread Starter [jinsan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jinsan/)
 * (@jinsan)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blockquote-styling-question/#post-134026)
 * thanks everyonec will give it a go

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