in the template i use, you can go into the html section and strip out (by hand) the styling for the repeat block quotes as they pop in before your reply to the quote: it's not very handy -- this is an ugly bug in the tumblr set-up really -- but it does allow me to tidy up my own response on my own tumblr page: and seems to give me some control over the dashboard that everyone sees... not sure tho what happens when it's reblogged (as no one has yet reblogged me when this was an issue)
the quotes and your responses are not right-aligning on the general dashboard (at least as i have this set up)
(in fact the right-align thing seems to be a feature of the template you're using: it's embedded in the structural part of the source code, the style sheet which sets the general rules) (is this the CSS section? i kinda know how to fuck about with these things without knowing how to name them correctly...)
Yeah, they don't right-align on my dashboard either, just at my actual Tumblr site. But also, I don't think it would be "block" quotes that causes a right align, would it? Doesn't "block" tend to justify text?
But as I was saying, this only happens in the "Source" box. Have you ever reblogged something that was in "quote" mode? I have a feeling other people's templates may allow more choices, but in this instance I can't write new text anywhere but in the "quote" box (in which case it appears to be part of the original quote) or in the "source" box.
I have no idea what CSS is other than it has something to do with webpages and it isn't html.
I actually don't give much of a shit about this issue (I care more that supposedly Easy To Use tumblr doesn't always let you reblog an entire post, so if you want to you have to cut and paste and start dicking around with html, which is really a stupid way for tumblr to do things if their drawing point is how easy it is for the average casual cat to reblog).
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)
No, I think it's the "div.post div.quote div.source" bit in the section labeled "Quote Post;" the coding in that section also sets the font and size of both the quoted text and the source/commentary beneath it. It looks like the "block quote" instruction applies to block quotes in regular text posts, so any time Frank quotes someone mid-post it should align right as well. (Except, looking back through his posts, it doesn't! Probably bad coding on the part of the template-maker -- there's probably another instruction somewhere else mistakenly overriding the block quote instruction for text posts.)
Well, Tumblr is mostly an archive of stuff posted here, so I felt it appropriate to use an archival picture. (Really it's just an elaborate plug for your book.)
But anyway, maybe later today I will quote Abraham Lincoln to the effect that you can fool all the people some of the time, you can fool some of the people all of the time, but you can't get Tumblr to fucking format the way you want to. And then in the "Source" box I'll print the Gettysburg Address and see if I can go into the code and change "right" to "left" everywhere it says "align: right."
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the quotes and your responses are not right-aligning on the general dashboard (at least as i have this set up)
(in fact the right-align thing seems to be a feature of the template you're using: it's embedded in the structural part of the source code, the style sheet which sets the general rules) (is this the CSS section? i kinda know how to fuck about with these things without knowing how to name them correctly...)
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But as I was saying, this only happens in the "Source" box. Have you ever reblogged something that was in "quote" mode? I have a feeling other people's templates may allow more choices, but in this instance I can't write new text anywhere but in the "quote" box (in which case it appears to be part of the original quote) or in the "source" box.
I have no idea what CSS is other than it has something to do with webpages and it isn't html.
I actually don't give much of a shit about this issue (I care more that supposedly Easy To Use tumblr doesn't always let you reblog an entire post, so if you want to you have to cut and paste and start dicking around with html, which is really a stupid way for tumblr to do things if their drawing point is how easy it is for the average casual cat to reblog).
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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)
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Nice work, Dave.
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Or maybe I won't.