Discussion on implementing pull-quotes in PortableText fields using default rendering or custom components.

I want to support pull-quotes in a PortableText field, and the default rendering for a blockquote is sufficient for me, so I am doing the following. Is this the best way to go about this? I wasn’t able to find any documentation on reusing these default component styles.

The built-in way would be in the

styles

array add

blockquote

is a default style type so should need any custom objects to make it happen
Our default portable text styles aren’t super prominently displayed in the docs, but here’s the full list:
https://www.sanity.io/docs/configuration#configuring-styles-for-text-blocks-8997d6860827

The built-in way would be in the

styles

array add

blockquote

is a default style type so should need any custom objects to make it happen
Our default portable text styles aren’t super prominently displayed in the docs, but here’s the full list:
https://www.sanity.io/docs/configuration#configuring-styles-for-text-blocks-8997d6860827

oh, i misunderstood! Yeah, what you’re doing should totally work, but I’m not sure it would be a “best practice” across the board (probably why it’s not documented, though i’m not sure about that).
If you’re only rendering one style or decorator using that style, I don’t think it’s a UX problem, but if you had both blockquote and a new decorator using the blockquote rendering in the editor, it might be confusing.

I think in your usecase, it’s probably not a big deal to do it this way. Most of the time, you’d probably want to render a custom component to differentiate for editors