HTML and CSS Reference
In-Depth Information
soliloquy I used in the example for line breaks would have worked better as a
<block-
quote>
than as a simple paragraph. Here's an input example:
<blockquote>
“During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn
of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens,
I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary
tract of country, and at length found myself, as the shades of evening
grew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher.”—-Edgar Allen Poe
</blockquote>
As with paragraphs, you can split lines in a
<blockquote>
using the line break tag,
<br>
.
The following input example shows an example of this use:
Input
▼
<blockquote>
Guns aren't lawful, <br />
nooses give.<br />
gas smells awful.<br />
You might as well live.<br />
—-Dorothy Parker
</blockquote>
Figure 7.12 shows how the preceding input example appears in a browser.
.
Output
FIGURE 7.12
A block quotation.
NOTE
The
<blockquote>
tag is often used not to set off quotations
within text, but rather to create margins on both sides of a page in
order to make it more readable. This technique works, but strictly
speaking, it's a misuse of the tag. These days, you should control
margins with CSS, as explained in Lesson 8.
