The Journalist v1.9 creator gives us a theme where the authors comments have a blue-grayish [#f3f3f3] background—fine. I like it, except when I quote material. I’ve tried everyway I know to change the white background around the quote to the #f3f3f3 color—no luck. I wrote the theme creator—no reply.

Using my Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) [statements quoted below], I can change this, so I did. I get the white background and my readers [who are less likely to comment with quoted material] get the blue-gray.

.commentlist li.bypostauthor {/*white background */
background-color:#fff;
}

.commentlist li {/*blue-gray background */
background-color:#f3f3f3;
}

The result is:

Now the quote mark blends [the X%@ white background around them is not obvious].

Now solve one problem and maybe introduce another. When I reply to a reader’s comment, the white background of my comment is within the blue-gray background. It is not a sharp as I think it should be. I’ll likely add a border bottom and left [maybe right] and see which is more appealing to me. I have done so—no additional border on the right.