Rodent Regatta

Frequently, I quote something or someone using a [blockquote] tag. Within that tag, I may want something centered. Here’s an example:

This Is The Title
Author

This is where the body of the quote goes.

This is the last line of the body of the quote.

This entry was produced in Movable Type’s normal text editing box. The above blockquote used the following tags: [blockquote] [center] [b] [br /]. It looks the way I want it to look, but I don’t believe it is well-formed and validating XHTML Strict.

Here’s the same blockquote using the tags that Zempt would apply, and I’m told these are the proper, well-formed XHTML Strict tags:

This Is The Title
Author

This is where the body of the quote goes.

This is the last line of the body of the quote.

This second blockquote used the following tags: [blockquote] [div align=”center”] [strong] [br /]

Last week when I attempted to post a blockquote using this last method, I discovered that all of the entries following that entry has lost their left margins. In other words, all entries that had been done before it – remember, entries are in reverse chronological order. So, this is a test to see what we get.

• * * UPDATE * * * Ok…no problems. I’m going to pass this one off to one of two things: (1) operator stupidity, i.e. me or (2) a fluke when I was attempting to use Zempt last week. Stay tuned.