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**silverglade** · 11-22-2008, 10:15 AM

hi, im using dreamweaver code view, and i type the following code and it just displays a long line in design view and in firefox browser, instead of making a block. here is the code. any help appreciated.

Code:

<blockquote> here is some text 
 her eis some text , here is some text 
her is some text her is some text </blockquote>

**davemies** · 11-22-2008, 10:19 AM

works for me - post a link to the page

**silverglade** · 11-22-2008, 11:01 AM

ok here is a link to the page where i used a blockquote. in the browser it displays just a long line for me. here is the code. any help appreciated thanks. dererk. here is the link.
http://derekvanderven.com/blockquote.html

here is the code

Code:

 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>blockquote</title>
</head>
<body>
<blockquote>
thisis some text this is  some text 
this is some text this is some text 
this is some text this is some text this is some 
text this is some
text this is some text.
</blockquote>
</body>
</html>

**davemies** · 11:37 AM

yep that's right - it takes up the width of the available space- in this case the width of the body (i.e. the width of the browser window) minus the default browser margins AND the default padding/margins for blockquote. if you put some paragraph text before and after you'll see it's indented compared to that.

see
http://pp.kpnet.fi/prescott/stuff/block.html

**silverglade** · 11-22-2008, 11:55 AM

awesome thanks davemies. i was getting scared because i have just started to try to learn to code rather than rely on dreamweaver design mode LOL>

and this was going to get me down. thanks for helping. derek

**davemies** · 11-22-2008, 12:00 PM

no problem - not sure what you're using to learn but try these as well
http://www.htmldog.com
http://www.w3schools.com/
http://www.cssbasics.com
http://www.opera.com/wsc/

also pressing shift + F1 gives you the O'reilly reference panel in dreamweaver where you can look up such thing as blockquote

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