title: How to style a blockquote with large curly braces around it
body: <p>I am trying to style a block of text so that it is surrounded by a large curly brace on each side (so that each brace takes up the whole height of each side of the element). Here is the HTML:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;blockquote&gt;
  &lt;span class="braceleft"&gt;&amp;#123;&lt;/span&gt;
  &lt;p class="quotation"&gt;Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Phasellus           Pellentesque at neque lorem, vitae aliquet risus.&lt;/p&gt;
  &lt;span class="braceright"&gt;&amp;#125;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I should also mention that I am trying to do this in WordPress, which I know can add unwanted tags. If I could get the right CSS for plain HTML, I can hopefully figure out how to strip the unwanted tags.</p>
  
  <p>I can easily change the HTML markup if that would make styling easier.</p>