Web Programming with HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript

2.7 blockquote Element

We’ve already talked about the div and p elements, which are block elements. Now let’s discuss another block element—the blockquote element. You should use a blockquote element when you have a quotation that is too long to embed within surrounding text. It’s a block element, so it spans the width of its container. More precisely, its content spans the width of the nonmargin part of its enclosing container.

For a blockquote element example, see FIGURE 2.2. In the figure’s browser window, note the margins on the four sides of the quote text. Most browsers render a blockquote element by displaying those margins. But as an alternative, a browser vendor (an organization that implements a browser) may render a blockquote