I wanted to add some CSS to my Drupal sites to provide a cool quotations look for blog posts etc. This is the module that I found that I think does a very good job. Unfortunately, I also need an option to remove the original text from the post - so that ONLY the pull quote is viewable. But that doesn't appear to be available as an option with this module. For most of the time, I really want the quote to be INLINE in the text. Any thoughts on how that could be done would be welcomed - you can comment on it here if you like... What follows is the description of the module from the drupal website at http://drupal.org/project/pullquote
A pull-quote is a quotation or excerpt from an article that is typically placed in a larger or distinctive typeface on the same page, serving to entice readers into an article or to highlight a key topic.
Without the module, authors would need to duplicate the text excerpt.
Functionality
This module automates and simplifies the use of pull-quotes for Drupal, by:
- removing the need to duplicate excerpts;
- automatically adding opening and closing quotation marks to the pull quote;
- leaving the excerpt unchanged in the body text;
- formatting the pull-quote to match your site's design, using CSS.
To use, simply place intended text excerpt inside a span tag with a class of 'pullquote'. The module then duplicates the text, adds opening and closing quotation marks and formats with an eye-catching design.
Benefits
This has several advantages:
- the avoidance of duplicated text, makes your work better with screen-readers like RSS, as there is no out of context excerpt duplication;
- it is easier for less skilled authors to create pullquotes;
- pull-quotes can be put on the opposite side, simply by adding a different CSS class; and
- if you later want to change the design of your pull-quotes, you can do so with just one simple change.
Development roadmap
- custom CSS that does not get overwritten at module upgrade
- citations to show authors name, year, source document etc
- WYSIWYG support;
- out-of-the-box styles that match popular themes selected from options page by site admins
- simpler token-based markup, for example:
[pullquote]Lorem Ipsum[/pullquote]instead of<span class="pullquote">Lorem Ipsum</span>
Credits
Thanks to:
- css-tricks.com for their inspiration;
- Sun for his code critique during development;
- lliss and callison for their invaluable coding and co-maintainer contributions.