HOW TO: Create Blockquote Using HTML Code

I hope you are familiar with block quotes. They are nothing but some sections of texts used for highlighting quotes from other sources. They are mostly indented from the blog post and they have different background color or text size and color.

Blockquotes
Blockquotes

Why Should I Use Blockquote In My Blog Articles?

If you are quoting about some matter from another blog, then it should be different. Your readers should feel the different.

  • Quotations can be easily recognized from the main section of your posts.
  • They can enrich and complement your theme.
  • Your readers will get to know that those are special lines.

How To Design My Own Block quotes?

Most of the wordpress themes have cool block quotes, but for some it just indents the quote and changes the font size and color.

In this tutorial we are going to create blockquote using HTML code alone, without messing the stylesheet.

Actually this tutorial is quite simple and of course, the blockquotes are also simple but effective, because Simplicity is Essential.

1. Changing the Background color with some text formatting

Coding For Yellow :

<p style=”padding: 5px; background-color: #FFFF99; border: dotted 2px #FF9900;”> Text Here</p>

I love and believe in this quote ‘Impossible is Nothing’. Every new idea is a joke until one man achieves it. Concentrate and work hard for reaching your goal. Always be constant and make your mind repeat this phrase ‘Don’t give up’. Happy Blogging.

Coding For Blue :

<p style=”padding: 5px; background-color: #E1E8F2; border: dotted 2px #00518A;”>Text Here</p>

I love and believe in this quote ‘Impossible is Nothing’. Every new idea is a joke until one man achieves it. Concentrate and work hard for reaching your goal. Always be constant and make your mind repeat this phrase ‘Don’t give up’. Happy Blogging.

2. Without Changing The Background Color With Text Formatting

This is a cool alternative for above mentioned block quote. This creates indent from the main blog post. This one uses no image but satisfies the look of an image.

I love and believe in this quote ‘Impossible is Nothing’. Every new idea is a joke until one man achieves it. Concentrate and work hard for reaching your goal. Always be constant and make your mind repeat this phrase ‘Don’t give up’. Happy Blogging.

Coding :

<b style=”float: left; font-weight: normal; font: 14px/22px arial; margin-top 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 50px; padding-left: 15px; border-left: 3px solid #666666;”>Text Here</b>

Note : This Tutorial is compatible with Blogger and WordPress blogs. If you are familiar with HTML you can use your own codings to edit and customize.

34 thoughts on “HOW TO: Create Blockquote Using HTML Code”

  1. You are right Pradeep – you made it very simple! This is very easy to understand for beginners… I only have question about using the colors for background : If I understand correctly, #FFFF99 is code for yellow color. Now, where can I find codes for other colors than blue and yellow?

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  2. Thanks for the effort you took to expand upon this post so thoroughly.
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  3. I hope this article will encourage more bloggers to turn there blog into a do follow to increase the traffic of there blogs.

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  4. nice article. Do you have coding for more colors ?
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  5. I like the second point. The first point is like not-a-so-cool technique. But the second one resembles as such the Block Quote comes with many themes.

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  6. Thanks Pradeep 🙂
    I had a question in the second method of creating block quote 🙂
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    As the above code will generate the normal block quote with it’s default image i.e. a Straight vertical bar then the text ,What if i want some other image instead of the black vertical bar???

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  7. Great ways to do such a “required” thing.I found this really useful.Thanks indeed.Probably I needed this stuff really,thanks !

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  8. good article. so can we use this for Share this and put our soucial icons in it. within the quoates. 😆

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  9. Hey this style is pretty much similar to what a squidoo lens requires.

    I had worked on a few lenses earlier this year and found them to be highly effective.

    Great post.

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        • Keith, I really appreciate for your participation in this article. But I wrote this article in my point of view,

          Create block quote without using CSS.

          I meant the style sheet here, which has .css extension. This tutorial helps you create block quotes without using that style sheet ! You don’t need to touch them, you can simply copy and paste the code in the editor and publish.

          And I really sorry for the title thing ! I was in a hurry ! 😀

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          • Well agreed that you had this in mind, but why be repetitive, i mean using CSS styles does not require you to add it to the CSS, you can easily add it to the HTML page itself using tags, so instead of assigning the CSS directly to elements you could do this.

            .bquoteyellow {padding: 5px; background-color: #FFFF99; border: dotted 2px #FF9900;}
            .bquoteblue {padding: 5px; background-color: #E1E8F2; border: dotted 2px #00518A;}
            .bquotenocolor {float: left; font-weight: normal; font: 14px/22px arial; margin-top 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 50px; padding-left: 15px; border-left: 3px solid #666666;}

            and then use it as Text here

            This way you do not have to keep remembering those styles, you just add the classname to the paras

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            • Thanks for detailed explanation buddy ! 😉

              I thought of making this tutorial as simple as possible.. thats why…

              Once again thanks for your participation ! 🙂

            • Another technique we have seen on popular sites is to create a couple images of really large quote marks, then wrap them around the quote box.

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