Set margin, padding and color for blockquote
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title></title> <style type="text/css"> blockquote { margin: 0; padding: 0; color: #555; } </style> </head> <body> <p>One</p> <blockquote> <p>Two</p> <div class="source"> Three </div> </blockquote> <p>Four</p> </body> </html>