# CSS quotes - general styling

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/css-quotes-general-styling/113373>\
**Category:** Development\
**Tags:** css\
**Created:** [April 3, 2019, 6:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/css-quotes-general-styling/113373 "2019-04-03T18:05:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![Paracelsus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/paracelsus/32/164912_2.png) [@Paracelsus](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Paracelsus)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2020, 9:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/css-quotes-general-styling/113373/4 "2020-01-14T09:37:28Z")

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Hi, a specific question:

Does anybody know the CSS of nested quotes, specifically the “first-level” nested quotes?

What I want to achieve is a different color scheme for nested quotes from the “main quote”.

From something like this

```plaintext
.quote aside .quote, .quote aside .title, .quote aside blockquote, .quote aside .onebox, .quote aside .onebox-result, blockquote, aside.quote .title {
        border-left: 5px solid #212121;
        background: #25272d;
        box-shadow: 0 2px 5px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.16),0 0 0 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.12);
        border-radius: 2px;
    }

```

I tried to make a different color scheme to just this part

```plaintext
.quote aside .quote, .quote aside .title, .quote aside blockquote, .quote aside .onebox, .quote aside .onebox-result

```

And I get a partial success, but not the entire nested quote.

Any ideas?

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