Name
blockquote
Synopsis
<blockquote>...</blockquote>
Attributes
Core (id , class , style , title ), Internationalization,
Events |
cite="
URL
"
|
It is recommended that content within a blockquote be contained in other block-level elements, such as paragraphs, headings, lists, and so on, as shown in this markup example.
<blockquote cite=
"http://www.jenandtheneverendingstory.com">
<p>This is the beginning of a lengthy quotation(text continues...)
</p> <p>And it's still going on and on(text continues...)
</p></blockquote>
The cite
attribute is
intended to be used to provide information about the source from
which the quotation was borrowed, but it has very limited browser UI
support (only Netscape 6+ as of this writing) and is not currently
in common use.
The HTML specification recommends that blockquotes be
displayed as indented text, which, in fact, they usually are. The blockquote
element should not be used
merely to achieve indents.
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