Mixing roman and italic in blockquotes

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  teatag · Member · Feb 6, 2017 at 5:54 pm

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  I prefer blockquotes in roman type, and have changed the setting in my custom Suits theme accordingly. But there are times when a blockquote should also display words and phrases in italics; for example, when I want to emphasize something or give title of a book. But even if I italicize a word or phrase in blockquoted material when I create a post, it appears in roman type when the post is published. Is there a way to set roman as the default type while allowing italicized material to display in italics? Here’s a link to a post in which I italicized a word (“almost”) but it doesn’t appear in italics, so I added underlining: https://politicsandprosperity.com/2017/02/02/scott-adams-understands-probability/

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  staff-loquaciousloon · Staff · Feb 6, 2017 at 7:14 pm

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  Hi @teatag!

  I see what’s going on :)

  Suits uses italics on blockquotes, and then normal font for italics in a blockquote. So it basically reverses the behavior of italicized text in a quote.

  Adding this style to balance out the theme’s default behavior should do the trick:

  blockquote em {
    font-style: italic;
  }

  Let me know how that goes!

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  teatag · Member · Feb 6, 2017 at 9:33 pm

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  Perfect! Thanks very much.

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  staff-loquaciousloon · Staff · Feb 7, 2017 at 2:03 pm

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  You’re welcome!