Using Quote Elements

HTML gives you two tags for marking up quotations: quote and blockquote. The quote tag works with inline quotations, like the dialog in a novel, while the blockquote tag marks up offset quotes, as Figure 40.3 shows.

Figure 40.3. The quote tag is for inline quotations, while the blockquote tag is for offset quotes.
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The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) recommends that you specify the language of the quote in the lang attribute of the quote tag, like this:

<p>Her lip trembled. <q lang="en-us">Plastic,</q> she replied, wondering even as she said 
it if she should have asked for paper.</p>

TIP

The blockquote ...

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