Remove italics from blockquotes

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  jcollins · Member · Jan 20, 2017 at 4:31 pm

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  Using the twenty-twelve theme, my blockquotes appear in italics. Is there a way to change this? I have the following CSS, but it doesn’t appear to be doing the trick:

  blockquote {
  max-width: 600px;
  margin: 20px;
  padding: 10px;
  text-align: inherit;
  font-family: inherit;
  font-size: inherit;
  font-style: normal;
  color: inherit;
  border-left: 4px solid #e1e1e1;
  border-top-left-radius: 0;
  border-bottom-left-radius: 0;
  background: #ffffff;
  }

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  eallas · Member · Jan 20, 2017 at 7:27 pm

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  Howdy jcollins!

  The following code should change your blockquotes to look normal.

  blockquote {
  font-style: normal !important;
  }

  Let me know if you run into any problems.

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  jcollins · Member · Jan 20, 2017 at 10:47 pm

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  That worked for me. Thank you so very much!

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  eallas · Member · Jan 21, 2017 at 4:33 am

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  Great to hear! You’re welcome!

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  teatag · Member · Feb 3, 2017 at 10:01 pm

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  I use a customized Suits theme. I have set blockquotes to appear in roman type, but I would still like to italicize certain words and phrases (e.g., book titles). Is there a way to do this? Applying the italics command inside a block quote doesn’t do it. The word or phrase still appears in roman type.

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  eallas · Member · Feb 5, 2017 at 1:44 am

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  Howdy @teatag

  We like to have our threads separated by questions from one user. Please post your question at https://en.forums.wordpress.com/forum/css-customization#postform so we can better assist you. Thanks!

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  kathrynwp · Staff · Feb 6, 2017 at 4:48 pm

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  teatag – when you post again, please provide a link to an example post with a blockquote on your site so we can see directly what you’re referring to. Thanks!