ok, i've changed the blockquote to have a background color and a border, but now i'd like for it to only be as big as the text within it... instead of spanning the whole entry

this is the CSS:
blockquote {margin: 1px 100px 1px 20px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 5px; border: 1px dashed #212957; background: #b4bcd3;}
and i am new at this stuff and mostly learn it by trial and error, so i have no clue what to add/remove
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thanks, though
but then you'd have to type the text that you wanted to fake blockquote [span class="CLASS"]text[/span] every time you wanted to use it.
If you want to use an easy tag you can probably redefine something that's rarely used like [tt] or [h6]
tho, while you're here, may i ask something else? i'm going to anyway:
in that picture up there, beneath both the link and the lj name is a dashed underline, but i have in the css 'text-decoration: none' and i can't figure out where that is coming from! it's driving me nuts - any ideas?
a, a:link, a:visited, a:active {color: #bfb45c; text-decoration: none;}
a:hover {color: #8eab4f; text-decoration: none;}
(Example from my own layout, which is the same one as yours from
eta: In the context of css so it can be located, that code is above the subject 'page structure'. It's a frustrating bit of code and it needs to be defined there, too, not only in Entry Text or whatever that section is named.
Edited at 2010-06-06 08:08 am (UTC)
.asset-body a {color: #8c1112; font-weight: bold; border-bottom: 1px dashed #b4bcd3; text-decoration: none;}
i deleted 'border-bottom: 1px dashed #b4bcd3;' and that fixed it (don't know why that was there in the 1st place)
thank you! i was only looking at the above page structure bit, probably wouldn't' have thought to look at the other part