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4.7.2. The <q> Tag
Introduced in HTML 4.0, the
<q>
tag is virtually identical to its
<block-
quote>
counterpart. The difference is in their display and application. You
use
<q>
for short quotes that may be inline with surrounding plain text.
The HTML and XHTML standards dictate that the
<q>
-enclosed text begin
and end with double quotes. All the popular browsers except Internet
Explorer support
<q>
and place double quotes at each end of the en-
closed text. The result is that you'll get two sets of quotation marks if
you include your own quotes to satisfy Internet Explorer. Nonetheless,
we recommend that you use the
<q>
tag, not only because we like stand-
ards, but because we see beyond their display effects to applications in
document handling, information extraction, and so forth.
Use the
<blockquote>
tag, on the other hand, for longer segments that
the browser will set offusually as an indented blockfrom the surrounding
content, such as that shown in
Figure 4-20
.
