Overview
The <blockquote> tag and <q> tag both define a section of text that is quoted from another source and may need to stand out on their own.
Blockquote
The <blockquote> tag will have the section of text break out on its own from the surrounding text.
<p>The following is a description of HTML from Wikipedia:</p>
<blockquote>"The HyperText Markup Language or HTML is the standard markup language for documents designed to be displayed in a web browser. It can be assisted by technologies such as Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and scripting languages such as JavaScript."</blockquote>The following is a description of HTML from Wikipedia:
“The HyperText Markup Language or HTML is the standard markup language for documents designed to be displayed in a web browser. It can be assisted by technologies such as Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and scripting languages such as JavaScript.”
Short Quotation
The HTML <q>tag defines a short quotation usually contained in a paragraph or line of text. There is no need to break it out on its own using the <blockquote> tag.
Browsers normally insert quotation marks around the quotation, but the text remains inline with the surrounding text.
<p>This is a short quotation: <q>Hello World!</q></p>Site Tag
Finally, the <cite> tag defines the title of a creative work (e.g. a book, a poem, a song, a movie, a painting, a sculpture, etc.).
The text inside the <cite> tag is usually rendered by the browser in italics.
<p><cite>David</cite> by Michelangelo. Sculpted from 1501 to 1504.</p>HTML Notes:
- In our HTML section the term “tag” and “element” are often used interchangeably to refer to both the tag used to create a page element and the element created by the tag (<p> tag = <p> element = paragraph on the page)
- HTML5 is not case sensitive; so <P> is the same as <p>, <H1> is the same as <h1>
- Global attributes can be used with all HTML tags and are therefore not mentioned on every tag page
- To write clean, readable HTML code, it is best to use indentation whereas elements within elements are indented (tabbed or spaces) to create something that looks like a project outline
- The browser will automatically remove any extra spaces and lines in your HTML code when the page is displayed
- Double quotes or single quotes can be used around HTML attribute values, but when the attribute value itself contains one form of quote, it will be necessary to use the other around the attribute
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