Title: <blockquote> help
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# <blockquote> help

 *  [bestbooks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bestbooks/)
 * (@bestbooks)
 * [18 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ltblockquotegt-help/)
 * Can someone please tell me why everytime I add a new “blockquote” to indent or
   an
    `<ul>` WordPress adds a space?
 * I would like my text to be right underneath each other.
 * For example:
 * text here
    text here text here
 * Instead of:
 * text here
 * text here
 * text here
 * I need to indent and stuff but would like to get rid of the extra space.

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 *  Thread Starter [bestbooks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bestbooks/)
 * (@bestbooks)
 * [18 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ltblockquotegt-help/#post-578027)
 * Please, anyone! This would seem like an easy fix.
 *  [Bodhipaksa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/haecceity/)
 * (@haecceity)
 * [18 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ltblockquotegt-help/#post-578028)
 * What does “Can someone please tell me why everytime I add a new “blockquote” 
   to indent or an WordPress adds a space?” mean? It seems like something’s missing
   in the middle.
 * And can you provide a link to an example of a blockquote that’s not displaying
   as you’d like?
 *  Thread Starter [bestbooks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bestbooks/)
 * (@bestbooks)
 * [18 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ltblockquotegt-help/#post-578033)
 * Sorry, it got cut off.
 * here is a link to the page i am trying to format.
 * [http://strategic-publications.net/chapter-1/](http://strategic-publications.net/chapter-1/)
 * When you scroll down, you will see in red, **“Section 2: Graphic Design”**. Under**“
   Layout Structure”** i indented/used “blockquote” and when doing so it keeps adding
   spaces that i don’t want.
 * you can see where i have indented or used “blockquote” it adds a space. i am 
   trying to figure out how to make it not do that. i would like for everything 
   to be under each other without a line break.
 * **like:**
 * **text text text
    text text text text text text
 * **instead of:**
 * **text text text**
 * text text text
 * text text text
 * how do i remove that extra spacing when using “blockquote”
 * thanks so much.
 *  [Bodhipaksa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/haecceity/)
 * (@haecceity)
 * [18 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ltblockquotegt-help/#post-578048)
 * Actually, I’m not seeing any spaces between lines in the blockquote sections,
   and everything looks exactly as it should. This in on Firefox on a Mac. What 
   browser are you seeing the extra space on?
 *  Thread Starter [bestbooks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bestbooks/)
 * (@bestbooks)
 * [18 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ltblockquotegt-help/#post-578054)
 * Hmm, I’m seeing it on FireFox.
 *  Thread Starter [bestbooks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bestbooks/)
 * (@bestbooks)
 * [18 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ltblockquotegt-help/#post-578055)
 * This is so frustrating. I am seeing it both on my pc, using firefox and IE.
 *  Thread Starter [bestbooks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bestbooks/)
 * (@bestbooks)
 * [18 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ltblockquotegt-help/#post-578056)
 * Haecceity,
 * this is what the code looks like inside WordPress editor:
 * <font color=”red”>**Section 2: Graphic Design**</font>
    **Art Structure Layout
   Structure
 * > Balance
   >  Prominence Distribution
 * Placement Structure
 * i put in the blockquote tag beginning with “Balance” and end it on “Distribution”
 * there should not be a line space between “Layout Structure” and “Balance”. The
   same for “Distribution” and “Placement Structure”.
 * Sorry this is so complicated.
 *  [GOBLUE14](https://wordpress.org/support/users/goblue14/)
 * (@goblue14)
 * [18 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ltblockquotegt-help/#post-578059)
 * Check the “div.post” parts of your CSS. There are a lot of margin specifications
   in there, and I’d say it’s pretty likely that’s where your spacing is coming 
   from. I didn’t see anything in there for blockquotes, but adding something like
   this might not hurt:
 * `blockquote {margin: ??px;}`
 * It looks like a lot of your spacing is coming from the `<p>` tags. Play with 
   some margin sizes (or maybe add a funky-colored border first to see what each
   piece of CSS is affecting if you can’t see it on first glance.)
 *  Thread Starter [bestbooks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bestbooks/)
 * (@bestbooks)
 * [18 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ltblockquotegt-help/#post-578062)
 * Thank you GoBlue. I don’t know much about CSS either, very new to all of this.
   But I will try your suggestion.
 * Thank you.
 *  [Bodhipaksa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/haecceity/)
 * (@haecceity)
 * [18 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ltblockquotegt-help/#post-578118)
 * Here’s what your code looks like:
 *     ```
       <font color="red"><strong>Section 2: Graphic Design</strong></font><br />
       <strong>Art Structure<br />
       Layout Structure</p>
       <blockquote><p>Balance<br />
       Prominence<br />
       Distribution</p></blockquote>
       ```
   
 * Between “Layout Structure” and “Balance” you have the end of a paragraph, the
   start of a blockquote, and the start of a new paragraph. Unless you’re going 
   to have no margins around paragraphs (which means no spacing between paragraphs)
   you’re going to end up with the layout that’s displayed (which is a perfectly
   logical one, in my view, given the tags you’ve used, although of course it’s 
   not what you want to be seeing).
 * I’d suggest the basic problem is that you’re using the wrong tools in having 
   paragraphs and blockquotes to style this text.
 * First, I think it would be better to create a new class of heading (say an h2
   heading) that’s styled red, so that you don’t have to have that [font color=”
   red”] in your code. That h2 should also be styled to be bold and to have a margin-
   bottom of 0. Semantically, the stuff in red is headings.
 * Also, semantically, the rest of the stuff is an unordered list and so I’d suggest
   creating a class of unordered list — `<ul>` — that a margin-bottom and margin-
   top of 0.
 * Balance would then be a nested list within the list that begins with art structure
   and layout structure. The nested list would be indented but would also have no
   top or bottom margins because it would inherit those from the parent list.
 * And you wouldn’t need all those `<br />` tags!
 * Does that make sense? If not, look up [css unordered list] on Google and you’ll
   find plenty of resources.
 * So your code would end up looking something like this (plus of course the style
   rules that specify the margins).
 *     ```
       <h2 class="red">Section 2: Graphic Design</h2>
       <ul class="whatever">
       <li>Art Structure</li>
       <li>Layout Structure</li>
       <ul>
       <li>Balance</li>
       <li>Prominence</li>
       <li>Distribution</li>
       </ul>
       </ul>
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [bestbooks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bestbooks/)
 * (@bestbooks)
 * [18 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ltblockquotegt-help/#post-578316)
 * Hi Haecceity! Just wanted to let you know that I am still working on this. Or
   actually have not had time yet to delve in to yet but didn’t want you to think
   that I had forgotten about you or GoBlue.
 *  [Bodhipaksa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/haecceity/)
 * (@haecceity)
 * [18 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ltblockquotegt-help/#post-578326)
 * If you have any more questions please feel free to ask.

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