Blockquote isn't working.

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  mbukee452 · Member · Nov 22, 2011 at 11:37 pm

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  Blockquote not working. Text not rendering properly. Anyone else having problems?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  airodyssey · Member · Nov 22, 2011 at 11:58 pm

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  Hi. Could you show us a specific post or page (http://…) where “blockquote” is not working?

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  mbukee452 · Member · Nov 23, 2011 at 12:03 am

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  Gve me a second…

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  mbukee452 · Member · Nov 23, 2011 at 12:06 am

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  http://mbukee.wordpress.com/?preview=true&preview_id=4&preview_nonce=4b99f8415b

  The very bottom should be blockquoted. It appears blockquoted in Visual but not in HTML, and not in View Site.

  Thanks.

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  timethief · Member · Nov 23, 2011 at 12:17 am

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  We Volunteers cannot see “previews” of draft posts and pages only you and Staff can. Will you please contact Staff directly for assistance? Here’s the link http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact/ After you use the searchbox, under the search results, at the bottom of the page there will be a section that says “Have you found the answer to your question?” You can choose either “Yes I found the answer to my question.” or “No I didn’t find the answer to my question and I would like to contact support for help.” The no option will reveal the contact form.

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  mbukee452 · Member · Nov 23, 2011 at 12:35 am

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  It isn’t a draft post.

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  timethief · Member · Nov 23, 2011 at 12:55 am

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  I saw “preview true” in the URL and assumed it was a draft post that had not been published. I will flag this thread for Staff attention.

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  andrewspittle · Staff · Nov 23, 2011 at 1:21 am

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  Howdy, it’s not working because of extra HTML formatting in your post. Did you paste in text from Microsoft Word?

  If you click the HTML tab when editing that post you’ll see sections like this:

  <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: verdana; word-spacing: large; line-height: 125%;">

  That’s what’s causing the blockquote styling to not appear properly.

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  mbukee452 · Member · Nov 23, 2011 at 1:58 am

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  I did paste from Word but the exact same coding I have already used with another theme and the Blockquote worked. It seems to be then that this code conflicts with this particular theme.

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  mbukee452 · Member · Nov 23, 2011 at 1:59 am

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  And even without the formatting, it still doesn’t work.

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  raincoaster · Member · Nov 23, 2011 at 2:07 am

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  Give us the actual link to the published post. And NEVER copy-paste from Word without using the special Paste from Word function, because this is what happens.

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  timethief · Member · Nov 23, 2011 at 2:07 am

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  WORD is not web compliant. It contains extraneous code. Unless your use the correct icon to paste the WORD code into the pop-up box so the extraneous code gets stripped from it you will eventfully experience this problem over and over again. Go here please and enable this > Settings > Writing and select “ ___ WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically” and then scroll down and click “Save Changes.” Then open your most recent post open in the editor, make one minor change such as adding a space and then deleting it, and then click “Update Post.” Does that change anything?

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  mbukee452 · Member · Nov 23, 2011 at 2:26 am

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  http://mbukee.wordpress.com/493-2/

  here is link to a test page. I have not copied anything on here from Word. The blockquote doesn’t seem to work when viewed this way. When viewed in Visual in the editor it does work though, but it doesn’t come through in the preview or in the published view or anything.

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  mbukee452 · Member · Nov 23, 2011 at 2:31 am

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  I’ve enabled those settings. Still no changes.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Nov 23, 2011 at 2:44 am

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  The problem is, the CSS stylesheet for that theme does not have any styling in it for blockquotes, so everything is rendered just as a normal paragraph.

  Staff need to fix this. The blockquote selector is totally empty.

  blockquote {
  }

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  thesacredpath · Member · Nov 23, 2011 at 2:45 am

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  I’m tagging this to have it moved to the themes forum so hopefully one of the theme team will see it and fix the problem.

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Nov 23, 2011 at 2:55 am

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  Rich, there’s also this:

  #content .type-quote blockquote {
  padding: 15px;
  border-radius: 15px;
  -webkit-border-radius: 15px;
  -khtml-border-radius: 15px;
  -moz-border-radius: 15px;
  color: white;
  background: #535353;
  }

  Up to a few days ago, bqs in DePo Square were like that (white text in a grey bubble). So this is a new bug.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Nov 23, 2011 at 3:19 am

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  The problem is, there is no class showing in any of the parent selectors for .type-quote and that is not being applied to the blockquote in their example test page.

  That I think is for the “quote” post type rather than standard blockquotes.

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Nov 23, 2011 at 3:59 am

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  DePo Square doesn’t support alternative post formats. As I said, up to a few days ago bqs in DePo Square used to be white text in a grey bubble. I know it for sure because that’s what my latest post is about, and I checked the themes again before publishing it:

  Blockquote style

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  thesacredpath · Member · Nov 23, 2011 at 5:42 am

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  I can’t remember which theme I was looking at, I think it was on one of the theme demos, but I remember seeing the .type-quote in a sample “quote” post. I’m not entirely sure exactly where I saw it.

  The point is, DePo Squared has no blockquote styling defined in the CSS for a standard blockquote HTML tag, so it just takes on standard paragraph styling.