Full Version: Blockquotes In Extended Entries?
I use MT 4.21 and I can't seem to get blockquotes in Extended Entries. If I blockquote a selection of text in an Extended Entry, I publish the entry, I can't see the blockquote (the text reverts to normal settings). Is it supposed to be like that?
Do you have an example page?
I created a blockquote in an extended entry:
Extended Entry with Blockquote Example
It is properly indented and matches the blockquote in the main entry body. No other text formatting is applied because my CSS does not specify any formatting for blockquote tags.
If you have specific styles applied that appear in the body, but not in the extended entry, I would first check the page source to verify that the blockquote tag appears in the HTML in the extended entry portion. If it does, then I would guess that your CSS is not being applied within the extended entry and that you should check your selectors.
I created a blockquote in an extended entry:
Extended Entry with Blockquote Example
It is properly indented and matches the blockquote in the main entry body. No other text formatting is applied because my CSS does not specify any formatting for blockquote tags.
If you have specific styles applied that appear in the body, but not in the extended entry, I would first check the page source to verify that the blockquote tag appears in the HTML in the extended entry portion. If it does, then I would guess that your CSS is not being applied within the extended entry and that you should check your selectors.
QUOTE (cherdt @ Dec 10 2008, 11:18 AM) 
Do you have an example page?
I created a blockquote in an extended entry:
Extended Entry with Blockquote Example
It is properly indented and matches the blockquote in the main entry body. No other text formatting is applied because my CSS does not specify any formatting for blockquote tags.
If you have specific styles applied that appear in the body, but not in the extended entry, I would first check the page source to verify that the blockquote tag appears in the HTML in the extended entry portion. If it does, then I would guess that your CSS is not being applied within the extended entry and that you should check your selectors.
I created a blockquote in an extended entry:
Extended Entry with Blockquote Example
It is properly indented and matches the blockquote in the main entry body. No other text formatting is applied because my CSS does not specify any formatting for blockquote tags.
If you have specific styles applied that appear in the body, but not in the extended entry, I would first check the page source to verify that the blockquote tag appears in the HTML in the extended entry portion. If it does, then I would guess that your CSS is not being applied within the extended entry and that you should check your selectors.
Here's an example:
QUOTE
The TiVo press release was supposed to be in blockquotes (indented text with a dotted line saying it's a blockquote), but it's not. It even loses the paragraphs! I'm not sure about the CSS though. I can edit it, but I'm not so good at reading the CSS code.
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Looks to me like things are working as expected. Some excerpts from your CSS:
In other words, you've specifically got no indent or margin set, nor any dotted border. You want to add something like:
CODE
blockquote, pre,
a, abbr, acronym, address, big, cite, code,
del, dfn, em, font, img, ins, kbd, q, s, samp,
small, strike, strong, sub, sup, tt, var,
b, u, i, center,
dl, dt, dd, ol, ul, li,
fieldset, form, label, legend,
table, caption, tbody, tfoot, thead, tr, th, td {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
border: 0;
outline: 0;
font-size: 100%;
vertical-align: baseline;
background: transparent;
}
a, abbr, acronym, address, big, cite, code,
del, dfn, em, font, img, ins, kbd, q, s, samp,
small, strike, strong, sub, sup, tt, var,
b, u, i, center,
dl, dt, dd, ol, ul, li,
fieldset, form, label, legend,
table, caption, tbody, tfoot, thead, tr, th, td {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
border: 0;
outline: 0;
font-size: 100%;
vertical-align: baseline;
background: transparent;
}
In other words, you've specifically got no indent or margin set, nor any dotted border. You want to add something like:
CODE
blockquote { margin: 20px; border: 1px dotted #000; padding: 20px; }
Great! Where do I put this in the CSS?
It should go at the bottom of styles.css
One thing I have just noticed is that you have two div's with the id content and two with the id content-inner. id's should be unique on the page, that may causes some layout problems.
One thing I have just noticed is that you have two div's with the id content and two with the id content-inner. id's should be unique on the page, that may causes some layout problems.
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