# Consistent \[quote\] vs. \`\>\` formatting in emails vs. website

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/consistent-quote-vs-formatting-in-emails-vs-website/34705
**Category:** UX
**Created:** [October 20, 2015, 1:59am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/consistent-quote-vs-formatting-in-emails-vs-website/34705 "2015-10-20T01:59:24Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![dandv](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/dandv/32/169779_2.png) [@dandv](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dandv)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2015, 1:59am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/consistent-quote-vs-formatting-in-emails-vs-website/34705/1 "2015-10-20T01:59:24Z")

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The Discourse web application applies the same CSS to quotes created with `[quote]` as it does to those created with a leading `>` on a line:

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/c/f/cf819a6c243703924c3aea73977a1e4f7ccf35e2.png)

(the original post is [here](https://forum.quantifiedself.com/t/a-self-experimentation-platform-for-self-blinded-experiments/1658/8?u=dan_dascalescu)). In the email notification though, the `>` quotes don’t have the left quote bar, while the `[quote]` quote does:

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/4/0/40b8f1a6274bf7bb8289c95620fd621c385af93a.png)

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2015, 3:06am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/consistent-quote-vs-formatting-in-emails-vs-website/34705/2 "2015-10-20T03:06:52Z")

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Hmm good point this has bugged me for a while too. Can you look into it @eviltrout?

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### Author: ![eviltrout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/eviltrout/32/5275_2.png) [@eviltrout](https://meta.discourse.org/u/eviltrout)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2015, 8:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/consistent-quote-vs-formatting-in-emails-vs-website/34705/3 "2015-10-22T20:16:23Z")

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Looks like we never properly supported that HTML formatting. I’ve fixed it:

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/2fdf8cba3da726ee2d8feab4fa49d9672de952b4](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/2fdf8cba3da726ee2d8feab4fa49d9672de952b4)

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2015, 8:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/consistent-quote-vs-formatting-in-emails-vs-website/34705/4 "2015-10-22T20:23:22Z")

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