How to Customize Blockquote in Blogger

First of all let me tell you that What is Blockquote? Blockquotes are sections of text which are used to highlight quotes from other text or simply a blockquote is used to highlight a text to make it different from other text on the page. Blockquotes are used to draw attention of your readers to particular parts of your blog or if you're a blogger then you can use blockquotes for highlighting code snippets of widgets/CSS codes. Whatever your purpose, using blockquotes is a perfect way to draw your readers attention. So today, in this tutorial we'll show you How to Customize Blockquote in Blogger. Check the image below to see how this blockquote looks that we are going to share today.

How to Customize Blockquote in Blogger

Step 1. Log in to your Blogger Account
Step 2. Go to Template >> Backup your Template and click on Edit HTML
Step 3. Search for .post blockquote and delete the code with all its occurrences. In most templates code looks like this

.post-body blockquote { blaa blaa blaa }

If your couldn't find it then no problem, its ok
Step 4. Now search for ]]></b:skin> and paste the following code just above/before it

.post blockquote{background:#ddd;border-left:1px solid #333;border-bottom:17px solid #333;border-top:1px solid #333;border-right:1px solid #333; margin-left:20px}
.post blockquote p{padding:10px}

Step 5. Click on Save Template button
And you're done!

How to Use Blockquote

Using blockquote is extremely easy, from the post editor type or paste whatever you want. Select the text/code that you want to show in blockquote and click on Quote tool.