This forum needs a style for blockquotes

Omegatron

If I put something in <code> tags, it displays like this: something in code tags, but if I put something in <blockquote> tags, it displays like this:

something in blockquote tags

. There should be some style associated with blockquotes to set them apart.

dstillman

Better?

(Aside from the dashed gray border, now using :before/after and CSS generated content to put quotes around the text, but hey, it's a Firefox extension...)

Omegatron

You're not supposed to put quotation marks around a blockquote, silly.

:-)

Yes, it's better with the lines, though. Thanks.

katrielf

This was hard to figure out! I tried >>> and > and "" all to no avail. Maybe a little link or explanatory box under the textbox?

damnation

This is a blockquote:

Hi, I'm quoting you now!

How did I do it?
<blockquote>quoted text</blockquote>

DWL-SDCA

@damnation How did you accomplish displaying the blockquote tags without enclosing them within code tags?

adamsmith

you escape the opening pointy bracket as &lt; (which I'm displaying here by in turn escaping the ampersand)

DWL-SDCA

Ah, yes. Thanks. I use another forum where the escaped character is treated the same as the pointy bracket. This system is more flexible.