Title: quoting
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# quoting

 *  [todabeat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/todabeat/)
 * (@todabeat)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/quoting/)
 * i was just wondering… if you see here in
 * nahright.com << on his post he has a quotes arounf actual quotes that the artist
   say. is that a plug-in or where is that feature?

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 *  [buybabygifts](https://wordpress.org/support/users/buybabygifts/)
 * (@buybabygifts)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/quoting/#post-337985)
 * He probably does that with styling. Say he uses a blockquote tag and then he 
   styles this blockquote to have a left border on them.
 *  [drawyoursword](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drawyoursword/)
 * (@drawyoursword)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/quoting/#post-338663)
 * But how do you achieve this effect?
 *  [jwurster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jwurster/)
 * (@jwurster)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/quoting/#post-338664)
 * This is what the css looks like:
    `blockquote { margin: 15px 30px 0 10px; padding-
   left: 20px; border-left: 5px solid blue; }
 *  [drawyoursword](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drawyoursword/)
 * (@drawyoursword)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/quoting/#post-338665)
 * Do i have to insert the code into my CSS?
 * Also when i log in and hit WRITE, how to i put that into my post? Is it a tag
   similar to Html?
 * Thanks for your patience
 * DYS
 *  [drawyoursword](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drawyoursword/)
 * (@drawyoursword)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/quoting/#post-338668)
 * Can anyone tell me the tag to use quotes in blog posts?
 * Sorry if its gone right over my head here
 * Cheers
 *  [alrescha](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alrescha/)
 * (@alrescha)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/quoting/#post-338669)
 * Basically, you just need to modify your theme’s style.css (WP2.0: Presentation
   > Theme Editor > style.css), find the blockquote style definition and modify 
   accordingly—that is, adding in the `border-left` line between the curly brackets
   as shown above, or adding the whole `blockquote` stuff if there isn’t already
   one.
 * Note that there may be more than one blockquote style definition. You can just
   try each one until it shows correctly. Won’t take much time. Although if you’re
   interested in playing around with styles and making changes, sooner or later 
   you’re going to have to read up on CSS.
 * Have a look at WordPress Codex, read the styling and theming sections. There 
   should be pointers to CSS tutorials.
 * You don’t need to “use” it, as it is a style that gets tied onto all your `blockquote`
   tags. That’s the beauty of style sheets.
 * PS: If you use the WYSIWIG editor, then just use the “blockquote” icon as per
   normal. If you write your own html tags in your posts, then just write:
 * `<blockquote>
    Your quoted text. </blockquote>
 *  [drawyoursword](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drawyoursword/)
 * (@drawyoursword)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/quoting/#post-338670)
 * Alrescha thanks for your response, most helpful and cleared it up 🙂

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