How to style “blockquote” in Thesis Theme?

It is very annoying when you want to show some codes in your post to stand out from the other text generally we use blockquote feature in WordPress.

What is blockquote?

In HTML and XHTML, the blockquote element defines a block quotation within the text. The syntax is <blockquote><p>blockquoted text goes here</p></blockquote>.

So, How to style that?

//customizing blockquotes
.custom blockquote { color: #1C2639; padding-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0.5px; padding-right: 5px;
font: italic 1.2em Georgia, “Times New Roman”, Times, serif; -moz-border-radius: 5px;
-webkit-border-radius: 5px;
}
.custom blockquote { background: #FFFDCF; }
Just paste the above code in your custom.css file and you are done..as you can see the above code are in blockquotes and you can change the background color if you want different just change #fffdcf to any color of your choice.