Title: Blockquotes won’t display in comments
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Blockquotes won’t display in comments

 *  [richards1052](https://wordpress.org/support/users/richards1052/)
 * (@richards1052)
 * [17 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-doesnt-recognize-blockquote-tags/)
 * I’ve just begun using the Living OS Upsilon theme and I notice that when I put
   something in blockquotes in the comment box it doesn’t display formatted correctly.
   [Here is an example](http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2008/07/05/failing-the-lynch-test-proudly/#comment-101449).
 * There must be something coded wrong in the css. If someone could help me figure
   this out I’d be grateful.

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 *  [whooami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whooami/)
 * (@whooami)
 * [17 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-doesnt-recognize-blockquote-tags/#post-804156)
 * define correctly? where do you think you are styling that?
 * you dont have any CSS controlling it.
    all I saw was this:
 *     ```
       .post blockquote{
       	padding: 5px;
       	font-weight: normal;
       	text-align: left;
       	font-size: 1em;
       	border-left: 4px #dbf1fc solid;
       /*	font-style: italic; */
       	margin-left: 30px;
       	margin-right: 20px;
       }
       .post blockquote em{
       	font-weight: normal;
       	font-size: 1em;
       /*	font-style: normal; */
       }
       ```
   
 * and none of that is applicable.
 *  [whooami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whooami/)
 * (@whooami)
 * [17 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-doesnt-recognize-blockquote-tags/#post-804157)
 * you need to get Firefox, and then you need to google for “web developer extension”
   and you need to get and install it.
 * with that, you can actually LOOK at at your CSS, and see what is what within 
   your site.
 * Didnt I already send you over here in another thread???
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/CSS_Troubleshooting](http://codex.wordpress.org/CSS_Troubleshooting)
 *  Thread Starter [richards1052](https://wordpress.org/support/users/richards1052/)
 * (@richards1052)
 * [17 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-doesnt-recognize-blockquote-tags/#post-804172)
 * I know how to look at my css. But I’m no expert on css & am asking for help in
   figuring out how to get blockquotes working for this theme as they work in other
   themes.
 *  [whooami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whooami/)
 * (@whooami)
 * [17 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-doesnt-recognize-blockquote-tags/#post-804173)
 * ok, fair enough, but I just explained to you, that the CSS in your current theme’s
   stylesheet isnt being applied to the blockquotes inside your comments.
 * so you need to look at where those blockquotes are, and add to your stylesheet.
 * you need to add this
 * `.commentlist blockquote { ...}` and style accordingly.
 *  Thread Starter [richards1052](https://wordpress.org/support/users/richards1052/)
 * (@richards1052)
 * [17 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-doesnt-recognize-blockquote-tags/#post-804307)
 * I added all of the code you quoted above to the .commentlist section & it seems
   to be working.
 * But what’s strange is that I looked at my old theme which displayed blockquotes
   just fine & there’s no reference at all to blockquotes in the comment section.
   So I don’t know how it handles that.
 * Thanks.
 *  [whooami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whooami/)
 * (@whooami)
 * [17 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-doesnt-recognize-blockquote-tags/#post-804308)
 * > But what’s strange is that I looked at my old theme which displayed blockquotes
   > just fine & there’s no reference at all to blockquotes in the comment section.
 * well that just means that that theme did something like this:
 * `blockquote { ...}`
 * that would be applied equally to everything inside `blockquote` tags.
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/CSS_Troubleshooting#Know_Before_You_Go](http://codex.wordpress.org/CSS_Troubleshooting#Know_Before_You_Go)
 *  [RoseCitySister](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rosecitysister/)
 * (@rosecitysister)
 * [17 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-doesnt-recognize-blockquote-tags/#post-804313)
 * <edited to take out my answer, you had already had your question answered>
 * CSS is probably one of the easiest things to learn. [http://www.w3schools.com/](http://www.w3schools.com/)
   is an excellent resource, many tutorials on everything, including CSS. That and
   the codex will be your best friend if you want to learn to customize your site.

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