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Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/grouping-content.html Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#the-figure-element Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#the-figure-element Comment: Could it be appropriate to wrap a blockquote inside a figure? If so then the figcaption could be used as the attribution source? Posted from: 85.98.228.115 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:6.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/6.0.1
Yes, that would be fine. I'll add an example to that effect.
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Checked in as WHATWG revision r6639. Check-in comment: blockquote example with figcaption for credit http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=6638&to=6639