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I am using blockquotes but the quotes do not appear

  1. awwilson
    Member

    Hi,

    My blog address is http://www.awwilson.com and uses the Under the Influence theme. I have several pages where I use blockquotes, but I have noticed that they are no longer displaying. The selected text is indenting correctly but the quotes, which used to display on the left of the text, no longer appear. One example page where this is happening is:

    http://awwilson.com/women-wear-bras-men-have-a-penis/truth-brush/

    I'm not sure when they stopped displaying but I have amended some options recently to add and delete widgets, changed the size of the sidebar etc, so it's I presume I did something that resulted in this happening.

    Thanks for your help

    Al
    Blog url: http://awwilson.wordpress.com

  2. macmanx
    Happiness Engineer

    Would you please link us to a post or page where this isn't working?

  3. awwilson
    Member

    Sorry, I only posted the url of the page above, is this the one you need?

    http://awwilson.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=58&action=edit&message=1

  4. macmanx
    Happiness Engineer

    Ah, sorry, I must haven glanced over that.

    The problem here appears to be having the text bold as well.

    If you un-bold the text, it should work as desired.

  5. awwilson
    Member

    Thanks - unfortunately that didn't work though

  6. macmanx
    Happiness Engineer

    Hm, you're right.

    The styling with the quote symbol appears to only work on posts, not pages, which is what you're working with now.

  7. awwilson
    Member

    Hmmm.... I've had just pages since I started the blog as I've found them more easy to organise. The quotes were definitely there before in pages and they've stopped displaying recently.

    Sorry - I probably sound argumentative as I keep coming back with negatives!

  8. macmanx
    Happiness Engineer

    No worries, this seems to be an intentional change, but I'll see what we can do.

  9. awwilson
    Member

    Thanks, any help would be gratefully received - the quote symbol really ties the page together. I'll watch out for any developments. Thanks again.

  10. awwilson
    Member

    Have there been any developments on this?

  11. macmanx
    Happiness Engineer

    Sorry for the delay!

    I track this down to your theme's Custom CSS.

    There's a bit there controlling the blockquote, which is overriding the theme's default, thus the quote image is not appearing.

  12. macmanx
    Happiness Engineer

    Specifically, change this:

    blockquote {
	min-height:30px;
	background:url('images/quote.png') no-repeat;
	margin:15px 30px 0 10px;
	padding-left:40px;
}

    To this:

    blockquote{
	min-height:30px;
	background:url(images/quote.png) no-repeat;
	margin:15px 30px 0 10px;
	padding-left:40px;
}

  13. awwilson
    Member

    Hi, thanks for this. I made the change (replacing lines 898 to 903) in the custom css and unfortunately the quotes still don't show. I've noticed that whenver I save the stylesheet then look at it again, the quotes around images/quote.png in the css have returned.

    Any thoughts?

    thanks again for your help

  14. macmanx
    Happiness Engineer

    Ok, this is getting to be rather strange.

    Any luck if you select "Add my CSS to Under the Influence's CSS stylesheet." ?

  15. awwilson
    Member

    I've gone for a workaround by finding a blockquote image and uploading it to my library and pointing at that. I'm pleased with how it looks.

    Thanks for all your help. I'm a layman on CSS and in this exchange you showed me that it's just picking up an image - which may seem obvious to the experts but I didn't know so I've got a much better understanding now.

    Cheers!

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