Change Font Used In Quoted Text

[waster1966]

Hi,

Hope someone can help - I want to change the quoted text on my forum to an italicised "Georgia" font and also be able to change the text size.

Whilst searching the support forum I've found individual answers to the font size and how to get it to italics but cannot find anything about font type for quoted text.

Thanks in advance for any assistance you can offer.

Regards

Alan

PS I previously posted this in the wrong area but I have now deleted that post.

[Tumbleweed]

You can just add this to your style sheet at the bottom:

/*font change in quoted posts*/
.quote{
font-style: italic;
font-size: 14px;
}

To get to the style sheet:
Admin > Themes Advanced Styles & CSS > and click on the tab, Style Sheet

[waster1966]

Many thanks p????lq?n?

Unfortunately I could not seem to get that to work and also need to know how to change the font type for the quoted text?

Regards

Alan

[Tumbleweed]

Just to be sure, you do have a V5 forum, correct?  Also could you link me to a thread (guest viewing friendly)that has quoted text so I can see if something is overriding it because it works on my test site.

One thing you could try is adding !important to the end:


/*font change in quoted posts*/
.quote{
font-style: italic!important;
font-size: 14px!important;
font-family:"georgia", Times, serif!important;
}

[waster1966]

Hi

Thanks again for looking into this - as requested, here is a link to some quoted text on my forum: beatleforum.proboards.com/thread/6094/quoting-another-members-post-replying

I do actually have the italics option already installed installed in the global header but I removed it before using your code in the style sheet.

Alan

[waster1966]

Hi

I tried the new code (the "important" one) but it still wouldn't work for me, however by adapting the code I had already in the Global Header using some of your code, I finally got it to work - here it is:

<style type="text/css"><!--
.quote {font-style: italic;}
.quote {font-size: 14px;}
.quote {font-family:"georgia", Times, serif;}
--></style>

Huge thanks again

Alan

[Tumbleweed]

Yep, if you put it in your header you do need the style tags but why it needed the extra curly brackets and listing .quote again like you did, I don't know. Not sure why it didn't work for you adding it to your style sheet either but if you got it to work and you are happy then so am I.   Could be because the live preview wasn't showing it. That has happened to me but when I clicked saved it worked.