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Originally Posted by DaveLessnau
I found Jellby's snippet of CSS for poetry:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...32&postcount=4
But, since it's 13 years old, I felt pretty silly trying to ask about it there. So...
Is it possible to put classes like this on blockquote instead of div? Is it even desirable? I'm to the point where I've played around with enough books' CSS that using blockquotes as a single solution for walls-o'-text, poetry and letters (i.e., Dear Sir...) is starting to grate. I'm considering classes for poetry and letters and leaving wall-o'-text at just plain blockquote. But, I wonder what's the least complex/most understandable way to do it. |
Are you asking whether you can set poetry using <blockquote>? That's how I do it if it's within another work, like a poem someone's reciting in a novel. If it's for a book of straight poetry, I don't think that would be quite correct semantically and probably not much benefit. I'd wrap each stanza in a <div> for that (Jelly's second method in that quoted post).