Title: Trouble with “blockquote”
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Trouble with “blockquote”

 *  Resolved [lynx13](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lynx13/)
 * (@lynx13)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/trouble-with-blockquote/)
 * Hello!
 * I got some trouble with “blockquote”. I inserted something like this into my 
   source-code:
 * blockquote p {
    margin: 15px 30px 0 10px; font-family: “Times New Roman”, Times,
   serif; display: block; padding-left: 20px; border-left: 5px solid #990000; }
 * However, when I visit the webpage, the blockquote makes a “space” everywhere 
   no letter appears and no solid stroke is made. 🙁
 * Then, when I try this:
 * blockquote {
    margin: 15px 30px 0 10px; font-family: “Times New Roman”, Times,
   serif; display: block; padding-left: 20px; border-left: 5px solid #990000; }
 * “blockquote” ignores everything instead of the red stroke.
 * Why does that happen?
 * I got absolutely no idea. You can try it by yourself, if you wish! Just insert
   the twio different blockquote-definitions and play around, you will know what
   I mean.
 * Maybe someone even has a solution for this mess?
 * Thank you very much!
 * With kind regards,
    lynx

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 *  [Les Bessant](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lesbessant/)
 * (@lesbessant)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/trouble-with-blockquote/#post-451977)
 * Where are you putting the code? Is it possible to give a link to the page(s) 
   where this isn’t working?
 *  Thread Starter [lynx13](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lynx13/)
 * (@lynx13)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/trouble-with-blockquote/#post-451982)
 * The code is put into a css-stylefile.
 * After that you can quote a text-passage like
 * > …
 *  and it is there where the error happens.
 * Unfortunately I do not have a link, but you may try it by yourself.
 * Thank you!
 *  [Les Bessant](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lesbessant/)
 * (@lesbessant)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/trouble-with-blockquote/#post-451995)
 * I did try it…
 * With your first example: [http://les-bessant.me.uk/bq1.html](http://les-bessant.me.uk/bq1.html)
 * With your second example: [http://les-bessant.me.uk/bq2.html](http://les-bessant.me.uk/bq2.html)
 *  Thread Starter [lynx13](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lynx13/)
 * (@lynx13)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/trouble-with-blockquote/#post-451997)
 * [@lesbessant](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lesbessant/): okay! And now
   try to space your text like:
 * “This is some text that I’m quoting. Wibble, mutter, babble, etc. It’s not worth
   reading, it’s just long enough to make the box thingy big enough to see what’s
   going on.
 * If you see what I mean. This is some text that I’m quoting. Wibble, mutter, babble,
   etc. It’s not worth reading, it’s just long enough to make the box thingy big
   enough to see what’s going on. If you see what I mean.”
 * And see what happens…
 *  [Les Bessant](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lesbessant/)
 * (@lesbessant)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/trouble-with-blockquote/#post-452007)
 * I can try it on a test blog when I get home, but that won’t necessarily tell 
   me what’s going wrong for you.
 *  Thread Starter [lynx13](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lynx13/)
 * (@lynx13)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/trouble-with-blockquote/#post-452179)
 * Alright, just try it: when you use the first “blockquote p”, then you will see
   that it doesn’t make a solid stroke when you have spaces in your text.
 * However, the text has the font-family you asigned to it.
 * If you use “blockquote” without “p”, then your text uses a solid stroke, when
   you have spaces in your text, however your text-font does not change.
 * This is weird and I still didn’t find something to avoid this behaviour.
 * But I am happy that someone tries to help me. Thank you!
 * sincerely
    lynx
 *  Thread Starter [lynx13](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lynx13/)
 * (@lynx13)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/trouble-with-blockquote/#post-452212)
 * Okay, FYI:
 * I finally got it to work!
 * Thanx to everyone who supported me!
 * Bye,
    lynx

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