Trouble with “blockquote”

  • Resolved lynx13

    (@lynx13)


    18 years, 2 months ago

    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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  • 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

    (@lynx13)

    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!

    I did try it…

    With your first example: https://les-bessant.me.uk/bq1.html

    With your second example: https://les-bessant.me.uk/bq2.html

    Thread Starter lynx13

    (@lynx13)

    @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…

    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

    (@lynx13)

    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

    (@lynx13)

    Okay, FYI:

    I finally got it to work!

    Thanx to everyone who supported me!

    Bye,
    lynx

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