No laughing, please

Yeap, it’s called a “blockquote”! You should be able to set the style for the desired paragraph in the write panel and then have the appropriate style in your style sheet and then you can quote till you can not quote anymore!

you can actually edit the html from the wp posting interface. or……just use indent or outdent feature to make it simpler.
–not laughing.

Will you laugh if I ask someone to kindly post a sample of what the code would look like? I’m strictly a “cut and paste” kinda girl who knows next to nothing about code.

Oh duh…I missed the little indent button, didn’t I?

Although I think that “blockquote” deal will work a little better. <sigh>

well, it’s not really a code, there are little buttons at the top of the posting interface, when you hover over them they tell you what they mean. try it.

Put this in your style.css: (well, first look to see if there’s already a blockquote there!)

blockquote {
font-size:85%;
margin:0 30px 1em 10px;
padding:1em 5px 0 15px;
border-left:3px solid #C63;
}

Take out the border if you don’t want it. You can adjust font-size, add a font color, change the margins, padding, etc.

Then in your post, you simply surround the stuff you want blockquoted with this tagset:

<blockquote></blockquote>

You rock. It looks great. I don’t know why everyone is so kind and helpful here, but THANK YOU!!!

You’re welcome! Have fun now….

Can anyone point me to the code where I can change the color of the text? I’m using good ol Kubrick. I’ve looked and looked… I’m sure it’s right before my very eyes.

Part 2 (since everyone’s being so nice)- How do I get only the top part of my post to show on the front page of the blog? I’ve now quoted a hugely long thing, and you have to scroll and scroll and scroll to get to the next post.

Where you want the post to break, insert <!–more–>.

And I’m not very good with kubrick…. I don’t even have a local copy available, sorry…. Are you talking about the post text color?

EDIT: changed “colour” to “color”, someone needs to make CSS non-Americanized English friendly!!

Just add color: and then put the colour, you can use the HTML colour format, like so: color:#CC0000; or like this color:white;

Cheers,
Michael.

Yeah, at the very least the standard should recognize either spelling….

Kubrick’s so twitchy I hate to say anything about tweaking anything in it, y’know?

Hey! The “more” thing worked! You are all so smart!!!

Still working on the color of the text thing. My template has made it so that my blockquote text is a light gray. Since I’ve made the font smaller, I think that it’s too hard to read. But I can’t find where in the stylesheet to change that default color.

Kubrick is a nightmare, and I say this as someone who normally makes things 10x more complicated for myself than they need to be!. It’s a great theme, its just a bugger to modify!

Try just adding “font-color:#ffffff;” (without the quotes!) in the blockquote declaration itself.