Title: New question = blockquotes problem Last modified: August 20, 2016 --- # New question = blockquotes problem * Resolved [blueamulet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/blueamulet/) * (@blueamulet) * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/new-question-blockquotes-problem/) * In my continuing crusade to find the holy grail of the perfect theme that is easy to use yet professional looking and best shows off my work…I ran across Platform, which is awesome except for one thing: it’s messing up my Blockquotes on many of my posts. I’m getting extra text above the blockquote which is the same text as contained in the quote. On a few of my posts I have smaller sized images that leave room for blockquotes to go in at the side. Here * [http://www.wildwanderingrrl.web44.net/wordpress/?p=956&page=2](http://www.wildwanderingrrl.web44.net/wordpress/?p=956&page=2) * you can see a post that is royally messed up, I’ve tried to fix it but it won’t stay fixed! The theme seems to want to keep throwing in extra code and tags. I saw this anomaly on another theme which I got away from partly for that very reason… * What can I do about this issue, if anything? Other than move away once again from a theme which is getting real close to perfect for me… * Here’s another one that doesn’t even _have_ a blockquote, just a bit of text, and it’s repeating too! * [http://www.wildwanderingrrl.web44.net/wordpress/?p=876](http://www.wildwanderingrrl.web44.net/wordpress/?p=876) Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total) * [baszer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/baszer/) * (@baszer) * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/new-question-blockquotes-problem/#post-2121046) * Hello Blueamulet, * I think you want your blockquote under your image? * this is what you need * ``` BLOCKQUOTE, Q { quotes: none; clear: both; } ``` * add the clear: both; to your blockquote in the common.css, but you can also add it to the blockquote in the style.css * why do you style the blockquote in two different stylesheets? if there is no reason for, you should only style the blockquote in one place. You will get this( delete the blockquote in common.css) and change the blockquote in style.css to: * ``` BLOCKQUOTE { margin: 0 0 1em 1em; padding: 1em 1em 0.5em; font-style: italic; quotes: none; clear: both; } ``` * Thread Starter [blueamulet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/blueamulet/) * (@blueamulet) * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/new-question-blockquotes-problem/#post-2121194) * _I think you want your blockquote under your image? _ * Ok, that would be fine, whatever works and doesn’t look weird, lol. * _why do you style the blockquote in two different stylesheets?_ * Not exactly sure what that means, but if it’s meant as rhetorical, yeah, like I say, whatever works is great. * Frankly I’m not sure what would happen if I did futz with the blockquote on two different style sheets. I am somewhere between a n00b and an intermediate user 🙂 So, if I just deleted the blockquote in common.css, and put the addition into the style.css, it would behave itself as needed? I hope? I seriously LOVE this theme, better than any I’ve run into thus far. Just about perfect, so easy to use…save for this one little problem. * [Edit] I’m on ‘common.css’ right now and don’t see BLOCKQUOTE, Q anywhere at all. So, I’m for shifting over to style.css and making the addition advised on there. Should be adequate for my needs. * [baszer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/baszer/) * (@baszer) * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/new-question-blockquotes-problem/#post-2121195) * and you got it working now? * Thread Starter [blueamulet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/blueamulet/) * (@blueamulet) * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/new-question-blockquotes-problem/#post-2121199) * Nope, not yet…we’re fixing, or trying to…. 🙂 * Arrggh, dang it. I did what you advised and I am still getting the same duplications, as for example = * [http://www.wildwanderingrrl.web44.net/wordpress/?p=516](http://www.wildwanderingrrl.web44.net/wordpress/?p=516) * Found the PageLines support forum and apparently other people have had some similar issues: * [http://www.pagelines.com/forum/topic/72](http://www.pagelines.com/forum/topic/72) * Thread Starter [blueamulet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/blueamulet/) * (@blueamulet) * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/new-question-blockquotes-problem/#post-2121266) * Found the answer, at least a workaround. A forum member advised me to go here and tick or un-tick as needed: * PageLines Settings>Blog and Posts>Post Excerpt or Summary Handling Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total) The topic ‘New question = blockquotes problem’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [blockquote](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/blockquote/) * [Platform](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/platform/) * 5 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [blueamulet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/blueamulet/) * Last activity: [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/new-question-blockquotes-problem/#post-2121266) * Status: resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics