</p> tag before </blockquote>

Hello

Try typing it all on one line including the p tags:
<blockquote><p>This is a quote</p></blockquote>
Hope it works. ??

Thanks for the reply. I was typing blockquote alone, wp was inserting the closing </p> I have fixed by editing the quicktag.js

Hi, can you share your edited quicktag.js? That may come in handy..

Thank you very much..

This is also causing me a lot of problems. I’m not sure what to do with quicktags.js and am concerned that if I just add an opening and closing p element to lines 63 and 64 I will potentially cause more issues.

In my mind it boils down to TinyMCE refusing to show the p element when in code view.

So, if I attempt to force the correct behaviour for a blockquote, eg:

<blockquote>
<p>First line of blockquote</p>
<p>Second Line</p>
</blockquote>

It persists in reformatting this to a variety of things, dependent on whether I save instantly or switch to the visual editor.

Usually returning to code view shows something like:

<blockquote>First line of blockquote

Second Line
</blockquote>

and this renders in a variety of ways. It’s quite frustrating and whether I end up with the extra </p> or not, I am still getting validation errors that make it clear that the text within the blockquote must be contained within a block level element, such as a p or div element. I attempted to add a div element, but again TinyMCE persists in removing these and making life a little more difficult.

Whilst I was writing that last post, the thought occurred to me that I can force TinyMCE to behave a little by adding a class to a p element.

So, for example:

<blockquote>
<p class="qp">First line of blockquote</p>
<p class="qp">Second Line</p>
</blockquote>

The above code will force the editor to keep your p elements intact.

This is a temporary fix in my mind, as the site I am working on will eventually be maintained by non-coders who will not be likely to use this method to force the correct behaviour. Resulting in a strong likelihood that pages will fail to validate again.

On a side note I attempted to wrap everything within the blockquote in a div element to give me an extra hook for my css.

It converted it to:

<blockquote>
<p class="q-inner">&nbsp;</p>
<p class="qp">First line of blockquote</p>
<p class="qp">Second Line</p>
</div>
</blockquote>

or something equally ridiculous! I’ll get round it by using additional classes on the final p element in the blockquote.

Thought this might be of some help.

The <p> tag inside blockquote is a valid markup.

schematic blockquote should look like the following

<p>excerpt</p>

You could used CSS to make the paragraph flow inside blockquote

blockquote p{display:inline}


miss that

<blockquote cite="http//reference.com/context-excerpt">
<p>The Excerpt</p>
</blockquote>

Hi Chaoskaizer

Possibly I didn’t make my point entirely clear. I can’t remember all of the problems that I was having before, but it was primarily that in certain situations WordPress wasn’t putting the correct p elements in place.

Items inside a <blockquote> must be contained by block level elements. I think the problem that I was finding was that WordPress was not putting the first sentence of a blockquote in a p element. Rendering something like:

<blockquote>Your first sentence
<p>Your second sentence</p>
</blockquote>

I’m not sure if this is 100% correct as I’m just going off the top of my head here. This is why I was suggesting that you can get more control over blockquotes by adding classes to the p elements within a blockquote (and this also has the added advantage of giving you a few extra hooks for styling purposes).

You can see an example of how I ended up coding things at this link – https://www.gbv.ie/about-the-consortium/

By using classes qp and qp-last, I was able to style things nicely. Class ‘qp-last’ allows me to place a background “end quote” image. If the code view in word press just showed all of the p elements I think things would make more sense.

I wish that there was an advanced code view option that you could tick which would turn off the current hybrid code view situation that currently exists. It’s a little infuriating at the moment!

hello

I have this blog https://www.cdisol.com-Doctor Away in which when i am checking it through any validator link I am getting so many errors… I have not mnaupulated anything in the header it is the default that wordpress gave so why are there so many errors.. And what do i do of them