HTML Help with Blockquote Newspaper style for mobi

GretchenPaintedQuill · Dec 2, 2014

I have a section of a book that is a newspaper article. I would like it to be indented on the left and right and have the text justified.

Is there a way to do this in HTML through tags or CSS? I've played around with the blockquote and the code tag but I'm still not getting the desired results.

Polenth · Dec 3, 2014

Here's one way. In the html part, it'd be something like this: <p class="quote">Your newspaper article paragraph here.</p>

In the CSS part (changing 2 to whatever value you need):

p.quote
{
text-align:justify;
margin-right:2em;
margin-left:2em;
}

You could also apply this CSS to a blockquote tag, but the issue there is different readers might render blockquotes in different ways. Some might make it italic, some will indent it... you just never know. Which is why I favour styling basic paragraphs over things like blockquote.

WriterBN · Dec 3, 2014

What Polenth said--definitely style paragraphs instead of blockquotes. ePub validators sometimes have issues with markup within blockquotes.

HTML Help with Blockquote Newspaper style for mobi

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