Frank Kogan

well, i only looked at the source for that one post, and it seemed to me that the block instruction is taken to apply to any commentary you wish to add to it -- which is why it's indented the same and bolded the same (and in your template's case aligned right the same) -- so it's the "block quote" instruction's fault in the sense that the block quote style doesn't get turned off

the aligned right bit is weird, and i suspect actually an error in that template: someone coded right instead of left and not enough people have pointed it out to whoever would or could change it for this to happen (they just quietly switch templates)

i agree about the headlines and the style limitations once someone uses quote: they seem unuseful -- i did reblog a quote once, and it made my comment look like part of the quote, so i went into html and snipped out the bit was making this happen (or closed a tag or something); not very time-consuming in itself but i can't see why anyone would want it the way it is

and no one reblogged so i don't know what happens afterwards -- if this affects tumblr's own internal machinery (which seems buggy in lots of mildly irritating ways) or not

kat probably knows how to solve this!

(css is Cascading Style Sheets, and it's a type of coding you put at the top of a document to allow all kinds of different formats and structures to nest into each other, instead of recoding every detail anew every time, like font or indent or italics or whatever) (so that you set the "block quote" instructions up once, at the top, and then just say "here be block quote" and "here end block quote" -- or actual correct equivalent -- when you get to it: but i think the coding for tumblr is something else)