HTML and CSS Reference
In-Depth Information
<blockquote>
Function
Defines a block quotation
cite
,
class
,
dir
,
id
,
lang
,
onClick
,
onDblClick
,
onKeyDown
,
onKeyPress
,
onKeyUp
,
onMouseDown
,
onMouseMove
,
onMouseOut
,
onMouseOver
,
onMouseUp
,
style
,
title
Attributes
End tag
</blockquote>
; never omitted
Contains
body_content
Used in
block
The HTML and XHTML standards allow any and all markup within the
<b-
lockquote>
, although some physical and content-based styles may con-
flict with the font the browser uses for the block quote. Experimentation
will reveal those warts.
The
<blockquote>
tag is often used to set off long quotations from other
sources. For example, popular browsers display the following as an in-
dented block of text:
We acted incorrectly in arbitrarily changing the Kumquat
Festival date. Quoting from the Kumquat Growers' Bylaws:
<blockquote>
