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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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github.com advanced markdown inside blockquote

I'm writing a README.md for one of my repositories on github.com. As part of this README.md I'd like to include a quote of another README.md (from another repository), which implies using advanced markdown inside the quote. Eventually I'd like to…
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When adding quotation marks around text is it okay to use CSS pseudo-elements?

I'm designing a template for my wordpress and I want to introduce some style for the blockquote tag. As writing “ and ” all the time could be a little messy, I wonder if I can style the :before and :after elements of the quote to make it simpler.…
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Not displaying blockquote and background in html

I am trying to create a snippit of HTML which looks like this: I've written some code, but the background, italics, and left side quotes are not displaying correctly. Here's what I've tried: mission blockquote.style1 { font: 14px/20px…
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Rotating Blockquote from Mysql DB C#

Here's my DB CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `comments` ( `com_id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, `com_name` varchar(500) CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_bin NOT NULL, `com_content` text CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_bin NOT NULL, …
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position clickable image within blockquote

I want to center a clickable image within a blockquote; actually 2 blockquotes; I've separated the quote into 2 pieces to see if that worked better. I can't get the image to respond to style changes. I've used a div tag in the code I've provided…
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Melvin Thumblr grid theme ( photo vs text)

Anyone please can help me with the following issue using a grid tumblr theme?? Worked fine for years but now SOME of the re-posts look like TEXT instead of PHOTO. I'm not an expert so don't know if can easily be fixed or not. I just want to remove…
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using footer tag inside blockquote from accessibility point of view

from an accessibility point of view: is it o.k to close a cite tag with a footer tag inside the blockquote like it is shown in this example https://www.thewebmaster.com/html/tags/examples/blockquote/blockquote-tag-footer-element/ or maybe…
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How to align responsively blockquote element with

block of text

I have been having a hard time with making the closing quotation mark appear at the end of my quote text. Im attaching picture of how it is and how I would like to make it. Picture of alignment How can make the closing quotation mark appear at the…
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Classic HTML blockquote consisting of top and bottom centered special character

I am trying to style a classic blockquote, where the bottom and top border contain a special character such as ≋ ≍ ≡ ∼ ⨌ ⫗ ⁗ ∾ ∿ centered on its own box with a background color that goes over the top and bottom border. This is where I am right now.…
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Quill text editor in Angular rendering blockquote in HTML

I am trying to use Quill text editor in Angular to allow users key in blockquote text. When I retrieve the content string, it shows: sorry for using a picture as the blockquote will be rendered by Stackoverflow. Back to the topic, I try to pass…
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Is it ok if a blockquote happens to be in a paragraph

tag?

I've read Must blockquotes contain paragraphs or must paragraphs contain blockquotes?, so I see why blockquotes can contain p elements themselves. However, I feel that this, in principle, shouldn't exclude that a blockquote can happen to be in a p…
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How to modify blockquote line from bootstrap 5

I want to if it is possible to modify the blockquote-footer line from bootstrap 5? just change its color and width? Here is the code from bootstrap 5:
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Why do block quotes (""") cause a syntax error

I have a header block in my programs enclosed by """ in lines by themselves. Two of them started throwing SyntaxError on the closing set after editing the file. (Not both recently. This is the second occurrence.) Also of note: the first line is #…
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How to respect new lines in an HTML blockquote but use single-line spacing in lists?

I would like to use CSS to format a blockquote so the following (without a
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Line #1 Line #2

Line #3 Line #4

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BeautifulSoup - Getting all the child from tag instead of the first

I am creating a script that collects data from a website. However I am getting some issues to collect only specific information. The HTML part that is causing me problems is the following:
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