CSS: advanced blockquotes

by gabrieleromanato

HTML

<div class="mb-wrap mb-style-2">
                    <blockquote cite="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11">
                        <p>If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.</p>
                    </blockquote>
                    <div class="mb-attribution">
                        <p class="mb-author"> Lewis Carroll</p>
                        <cite><a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11">Alice's Adventures in Wonderland</a></cite>
                    </div>
                </div>

CSS

.mb-wrap {
    width: 30em;
    margin: 2em auto;
    position: relative;
}

.mb-style-2 blockquote{
    padding-top: 150px;
}

.mb-style-2 blockquote:after {
    font-family: serif;
    background: rgba(235,150,108,0.8);
    width: 130px;
    height: 130px;
    border-radius: 50%;
    content: '\275e'; 
    position: absolute;
    font-size: 100px;
    line-height: 160px;
    text-align: center;
    top: 20px;
    left: 50%;
    margin-left: -65px;
    color: rgba(255,255,255,0.5);
    text-shadow: 0 1px 1px rgba(255,255,255,0.1);
}

.mb-style-2 blockquote:before{
    content: '';
    width: 500px;
    height: 500px;
    border-radius: 50%;
    border-left: 5px solid rgba(235,150,108,0.1);
    position: absolute;
    top: 0px;
    left: -50px;
    z-index: -1;
}

.mb-style-2 blockquote p {
    font-family: Baskerville, Georgia, serif;
    font-size: 28px;
    font-style: italic;
    background: rgba(255,255,255,0.5);
    display: inline;
    color: rgba(235,150,108,0.8);
    text-shadow: 0 1px 1px rgba(255,255,255,0.5);
    line-height: 46px;
    box-shadow: 0 -6px 0 rgba(235,150,108,0.2);
}

.mb-style-2 .mb-attribution {
    text-align: right;
}

.mb-style-2 .mb-author{
    text-transform: uppercase;
    font-size: 18px;
    padding-top: 10px;
    font-weight: bold;
    color: #d48158;
    text-shadow: 0 1px 1px rgba(255,255,255,0.1);
}

.mb-style-2 cite a{
    color: #d7aa94;
    font-style: italic;
}

.mb-style-2 cite a:hover{
    color: #d48158;
}