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A means of setting one or more lines of text apart from the body of a page of text. It is a formatting technique that usually results in the quoted text being placed in a box, or with increased margins, possibly with other decorations. It is closely associated with the HTML tag

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How to add vertical lines to the left of my text?

How to add vertical lines to the left of my text? I am showing a blockquote html in a TextView dynamically. .
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How do I break the border around text in css?

I am creating a blockquote for my website, it currently looks like this: blockquote I would like to break the border around the opening quotation so it looks like this: preferred style Does anyone know how to do this? Here is the CSS I currently…
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How to style
element with CSS using :before :after WITHOUT touching any HTML

Given an HTML quote, where I would like CSS to automatically wrap inside opening “ and closing ” quotes without touchting the HTML.

I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I'm with you. I love you not only for…

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How to align blockquote open and close quotes?

Currently we are using
to add beginning and end quotes to a string through CSS since we need to custom style it. However, they are not aligning inline with the opening quote aligning before the beginning and the closing quote at the end…
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Mirror quotes CSS3

I've declared quotes like .quotes { quotes: "\201C""\201D"; } But in fact I only use the open-quote because the end-quote is supposed to be the open-quote mirrored horizontally (for visual reasons, the end-quote of that font looks like crap). So I…
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First-letter pseudo-element not working properly with quote sign in CSS

I am trying to style a pull-quote div tag. I want to style the quote mark " so it is bigger than the rest of the statement. I thought of using the first-letter pseudo-element. However when I did so, it did not work properly. Here are the cases I…
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HTML gets parsed poorly

My HTML somehow gets messed up after being parsed by the browser. This is my input:

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Semantically Correct Blockquote

I have 3 testimonials that I'm going to use in a website I'm working on. I've read up on block-quotes and I believe that this is the tag best suited for them. Here is a basic blockquote I found on a forum:

Pellensque.

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How do I make it so text fills the entire height of a blockquote?

I am using the same design template for several webpages, which has a fixed height and width blockquote. The text inside will be different depending on the page it is on, with some being longer than others. So, is it possible that whatever text I…
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_Scrape_ text after blockquote bs4

I have something like this in HTML:

some text: (8/4)some other text, (9/4)
some text:,…

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Can't get rid of the text indentation within inline blockquote

I have a blockquote displayed as inline element. My text get indentation in the first line and I can't remove it. As you can see I have been tried to use margin:0 padding:0 text-indent:0 blockquote { display:inline; …
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Bootstrap 4.1.3: sidebar doesn't show up when applying blockquote class

When using the blockquote class in Bootstrap 4.1.3 the effects are applied except for the sidebar. Here's how it looks in tutorials: Here's how it looks in my browser (chrome): I've tried it in different browsers, and I couldn't solve it with…
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Blockquote element for centered text in books

Once in a while, a novel (book, story, short story, etc.) will have a block of centered text to display something external from the main subject, either a sign that is being read, an abstract text, etc. Would it be proper (semantically correct) to…
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parent's relative position grows to fit the child absolute position height

How can I set the height of a parent (relative position) to height of the it's children? Take a look at this pen to see it in action. blockquote { position: relative; width: 100%; height: auto; margin: 0 auto; color: #edf0f9; …
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CSS block-quote empty lines

CSS block quote don't add empty lines to the qoute example :
this is number 1 this is number 2
this will appear as the following but the "" > "" don't appear and only empty line appear > this is number 1 > > this is…
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