text indents to left after blockquotes

Find your blockquote code in the style.css file of your theme and change it to something like this.

Fine tune it by adjusting your last margin value, which affects the left margin. When there are only two values, as shown in the padding, this is just shorthand in css. It actually means that

padding: 10px 15px;

is the same as

padding: 10px 15px 10px 15px;

Here’s a sample of what you might change your blockquote to read:

blockquote {
	background-color:#F7F7F7;
	border-left: 5px solid #94A6BD;
	padding:10px 15px;
        margin: 5px 0 5px 10px;
	}

Finally, just in case you weren’t aware, margin and padding etc reads those values clockwise from the top, eg:

margin: top right bottom left;

thanks for the tips..but still no matter how much I change either padding or margins around, the paragraphs following each blockquote is indented more and more to the left in IE6

In your CSS you probably have something like.

blockquote {
  text-indent : 20px;
}

Remove the text-indent part of set it to 0.

nope… i have no text-indent in my blockquote css

apparently my problem is due to a BUG within IE6 and here is the solution:

https://www.communitymx.com/content/article.cfm?page=2&cid=C37E0

https://www.positioniseverything.net/explorer/creep.html