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blockquote element styling
Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2006 1:30 pm
by d_cee
Hi
does anybody know how I can style the blockquote element like this
rather than this, which is all I seem able to do
thanks
Dave
Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2006 3:48 pm
by judebert
It looks like you're styling the blockquote, which is a block-level element (as the name would imply). If you wrap a <span> around the text and style it instead, you should get the results you're looking for.
Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2006 5:09 pm
by d_cee
DOH!
thanks Jude - I'm havin' a hard day LOL
Dave
Posted: Wed Oct 04, 2006 12:01 am
by carl_galloway
If I can add to that. Jude is correct in saying the blockquote is block level, and unfortunately CMS's and blog engines have corrupted the original intention of it by styling it as inline in many cases. The correct inline quote is actually <quote> instead of <blockquote>.
I know that when we're creating templates for use by other users we want to style the blockquote, after all, that's what users have available to them when editing posts, what I would like to see is some additional manipulation by Serendipity of the blockquote button in the text editor, so that instead of simply wrapping a blockquote around it we actually wrap a div around it with a span so that we can really begin to style our quotes rather than have to force a solution into a single html tag which isn't designed to work the way we want to style it.
Considering how far we're pusing Serendipity with recent changes, I would say it might be about time to look into this as a possible permanent feature.
Posted: Wed Oct 04, 2006 9:47 pm
by judebert
So, you're thinking of a change to the "Quote" button on the editor? Or a change to markup that substitutes a div & span for the blockquote tag?
Posted: Wed Oct 04, 2006 11:02 pm
by stm999999999
aeh, please, whatever you do: Leave the possibility to make a real blockquote by button!
Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 12:12 am
by d_cee
wouldn't it be nice to have a 'quote' button and a 'blockquote' button?
Dave
Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 8:21 am
by carl_galloway
It would be nice to have both buttons, but the more we add, the more confused some users will become, and the more like a wysiwyg editor our little text editor will become. Somehow I don't think the developers will thank us for adding extra buttons, but it would be nice.
Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 5:48 pm
by stm999999999
I think, this button can in the event_typesetbuttons-plugin?
There are a lot of other changes, that should be done to this plugin:
http://www.s9y.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6874
Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 7:20 pm
by d_cee
stm999999999 wrote:I think, this button can in the event_typesetbuttons-plugin?
I'll have to take a look at this plugin, I've never used it (didn't even know of it
)
thanks
Dave