The 2026 Drupal Business Survey is open. Your response will help shape the future of the Drupal business ecosystem.I haven't used blockquote much yet and when I had used it, it was only for single paragraphs, but yesterday I tried it on a multi-paragraph quote. First I put < blockquote > tags around the whole thing, but that got me only the first paragraph indented and blue. I tried repeating the opening tag before each paragraph, but that got me nesting. By putting tags around each paragraph, I got the whole thing indented, but the blue background is discontinuous and there is an extra blank line at the top of each paragraph in addition to the whitespace between the blue blocks. Here is the page
http://cintegrity.com/Lahman
Is there something I am missing?
| Comment | File | Size | Author |
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| #2 | Blockquote.png | 74.95 KB | tamhas |
| #2 | Filters.PNG | 69.2 KB | tamhas |
Comments
Comment #1
zeta ζ commentedYou should just need <blockquote> tags around the whole thing, as you originally tried. Can you change the page back to this? Try putting the tags immediately before and after the text.
What are you using to start and end the paragraphs in the node edit form?
Check the setup of your input filters – you might be converting line-breaks to <br> tags. Also the order of filters is important.
HTH
Comment #2
tamhas commentedWhat I tried initially was the tags immediately before and after the whole set of paragraphs. That got me the first paragraph indented and in blue, but the rest normal. See attached image of how it looks that way.
The paragraphs are delimited simply by two returns - one to end the paragraph and one to create a blank line between the paragraphs.
It has been eons since I fiddled with filters, but see the attached for the current setup. There are no visible < br > tags in the source except when I put them there ... which is none in this page.
Comment #3
zeta ζ commentedYou need <blockquote> tags around all paragraphs, as you originally tried. The image doesn’t help – I already believe you how it looked, but I can’t use firebug on an image which might have helped work out what was wrong.
I think it is better to use <p> tags for prose – <br /> tags are useful for poetry to end each line in a controlled place.
You have a few filters that modify HTML and their order can affect results. I suggest you try different positions for Blockquote, HTML purifier, HTML corrector, HTML filter and Line break converter, possibly others.
Comment #4
zeta ζ commented1 year on … you seem to have it working now.