Title: Box Within a Box
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Box Within a Box

 *  [rcspeck](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rcspeck/)
 * (@rcspeck)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/box-within-a-box/)
 * When blogging, I can put a block of text in a grey box like so:
 * <p class=greybox>My text</p>
 * But how can I put a box within a box? Also how can I put multiple paragraphs 
   in a box? Is grey the only color available for the boxes? And finally can someone
   post a link pointing to where I can learn more about mark up tags for WordPress?
 * Thank you.

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 *  [vtxyzzy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vtxyzzy/)
 * (@vtxyzzy)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/box-within-a-box/#post-1958795)
 * What you are showing is HTML markup, not unique to WP. Here is an extensive [tutorial on HTML](http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_intro.asp).
 * The usual way to create a ‘box’ is to use a div:
 *     ```
       <div class='my_outer_box'>
          <div class='my_inner_box>
             <p>An inner paragraph</p>
             <p>Another inner one</p>
          </div><!-- End of my_inner_box -->
       </div><!-- End of my_outer_box -->
       ```
   
 * The divs would then be styled with css:
 *     ```
       .my_outer_box {
          border: 2px solid green;
       }
       .my_inner_box {
          padding: 5px;
          border: 1px solid red;
       }
       ```
   

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## Tags

 * [blockquote](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/blockquote/)
 * [box](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/box/)
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 * [Grey](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/grey/)
 * [markup](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/markup/)

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 * Last activity: [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/box-within-a-box/#post-1958795)
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