Simple and Nice Blockquote Styling
The blockquote displays in standards-compliant browsers with the "big quotes before" effect, and in IE with a thick left border and a light grey background.
Unlike other blockquote techniques, this style does not require a nested block-level element (like p). As such, it turns a paragraph into an inline-styled element to keep the content from dropping below the quote.
blockquote {
background:#f9f9f9;
border-left:10px solid #ccc;
margin:1.5em 10px;
padding:.5em 10px;
quotes:"\201C""\201D""\2018""\2019";
}
blockquote:before {
color:#ccc;
content:open-quote;
font-size:4em;
line-height:.1em;
margin-right:.25em;
vertical-align:-.4em;
}
blockquote p {
display:inline;
}Example
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the only thing i would like for this would be a closing quote at the end.
scratch that..
What will this look like?
Thanks very much for this!
Personally, I think that the use of the vertical line *and* the quotation mark is redundant, since they both signify the same thing.
This doesn’t seem to work in chrome/safari.
… If you want it to work in Safari/Chrome.
blockquote:before {
content:”\201C”;
}
blockquote:after {
content:”\201D”;
}
Using multiple blockquotes one after another seems to result in the first instance having a double quote before but every subsequent instance having only a single quote before (in Firefox). Why would this be?
Having the same issue. How can I fix this?
Thanks
what would the
code for the closing quote be?
sorted
blockquote:after {color:#B2AFCD;content:close-quote;font-size:4em;line-height:.1em;margin-right:.25em;vertical-align:-.4em;}
just gotta paly with the spac a bit :)
‘Scuse my appalling spelling!
final
blockquote:after {color:#B2AFCD;content:close-quote;font-size:4em;line-height:.1em;margin-left: .20em;vertical-align:-.4em;}
Thanks for great tips Chris :)
What’s the:
for on blockquote?
You don’t seem to need it if you specify \201C and \201D on :before and :after.
Am I missing something?
Hey all, as the original snippet submitter, I just wanted to follow up and address some of the weaknesses mentioned in the comments. Here is some css that I think is an improvement:
This doesn’t seem to work in chrome.
Very useful reference! If anyone is wondering why only their first blockquote has the double quote marks but the following ones don’t, you just need to add:
blockquote:after {
content: no-close-quote;
}
Hi,
How to add a box shadow ?
Thanks
http://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/css-box-shadow/ – check this :)
Pretty easy and cool! Thanks Chris!
Thanks man, it helped me alot :)
Anyone know how to modify the css so that there is a space between paragraphs in a block quote? Thanks for any help.