Different Ways To Style Block Quotes

By default, most themes include CSS to style text you wrap in blockquote tags.

You can modify your themes default styling for block quotes or add custom styling for use with a different HTML tag.

The standard tag is included in the visual and text editor of WordPress.

To use block quotes you need 2 things.

1. A HTML tag to wrap your text in
2. And CSS to style the text wrapped in block quote tags

Default CSS

Here’s the default CSS from the Minimum pro child theme by StudioPress:

blockquote,
blockquote::before {
	color: #999;
}

blockquote {
	margin: 40px;
}

blockquote::before {
	content: "\201C";
	display: block;
	font-size: 30px;
	height: 0;
	left: -20px;
	position: relative;
	top: -10px;
}

Here’s the styling the above CSS generates:

To style your blockqoutes, you can modify your themes default styling

or

Add custom styling for block quotes like you see in the following image:

Custom CSS for Block Quotes

Here’s the CSS which generates what you see in the image above: