Reduce blank lines before and after block quote

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  proustmatters · Member · Jul 26, 2014 at 1:34 pm

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  I use the markup “blockquote” a lot (for citing other texts). My theme is Twenty Twelve. My problem is the excessive blank lines that are placed before and after the quote. How can I reduce the number of them?

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jul 27, 2014 at 4:24 am

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  Hi, I’ve looked around your site and not been able to find a blockquote. Can you point me to a location where you have a blockquote so I can take a look?

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  proustmatters · Member · Jul 27, 2014 at 4:54 pm

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  Arggghh. I should have been specific. Didn’t mean to cause anyone to go hunting for an example – apologies. Here’s an example: Navigate to … menu>Proust>The Buds in The Grove … scroll down some.

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  francisbob · Member · Jul 27, 2014 at 5:03 pm

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  Hello again !

  You can insert

  .entry-content blockquote {
      padding: 0 1.71rem;
  }

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  proustmatters · Member · Jul 27, 2014 at 9:43 pm

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  Thank you, thank you. Works perfectly.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jul 28, 2014 at 4:22 am

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  Hooray! Great job @francisbob. :)

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  francisbob · Member · Jul 28, 2014 at 4:26 am

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  Thanks @thesacredpath !

  On the topic of inserting images in the menu, I had a look for inserting images, it seems that content:url is more ‘flexible’ than background-image because it works better with position:relative and top:Npx

  Good night !

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jul 28, 2014 at 4:38 am

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  Yeah, that is true, using background is more work, but it is also more cross-platform browser compliant. Firefox only recognizes content declarations if they are in a pseudo class rule (:before or :after). Safari and Chrome (webkit based browsers) will allow you to use content without the pseudo class, which makes things even more easy. I suppose one day Firefox will catch up. :)