Colour Backgrounds behind quotes

Colour backgrounds behind quotes in Gutenberg

If you use Gutenberg and you want add a splash of colour behind a paragraph of text, you go over to the sidebar and you will see two tabs.

One says Colour Settings and the other says Advanced.

When you open the Colour Settings you see two palettes of colours.

You can change the colour of the text and/or the colour of the background to the text.

And you can either choose one of the colours that are there or you can click on the multi-coloured circle at the end of the swatch of colours and make any colour you want.

Here is a short paragraph with the background colour a nice rose pink.

But if you make a quote, the Colour Settings tab disappears, leaving only the Advanced tab.

If you open the Advanced tab you will see that it says ‘Additional CSS Class’.

I wondered what it meant until I realised it was an invitation to create a CSS class.

(Actually, the ‘until I realised’ took quite a while…)

The little that I know about classes is that you should name them something that is not likely to have been used elsewhere in the main code. So I named it ‘quote-thing’. Catchy, eh?

Stage 2 was to add the CSS to the CSS section in the Customiser. It has to refer to the class and it has to tell the class what to do. So I said it should make the background a specific colour (#ebf2f5)

And I wanted to put a bit of padding around the quote so that it didn’t look like it was sitting in a straightjacket.

Here is the code:

/* background colour for quote */
.quote-thing {
	background: #ebf2f5;
	padding-top: 15px;
	padding-right: 15px;
	padding-bottom: 15px;
	padding-left: 15px;
}

You can see it in the duck-egg blue background colour to the quote that begins ‘RICHARD JEFFERIES AUTOBIOGRAPHY, The Story of My Heart…’ in the previous post Spes Phthisica and the Heights Of Consumption.