Web Design in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition

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.