7491 2009-09-03 15:14:22 +0000 Unspecified: quotation punctuation in the blockquote element 2010-10-04 14:28:58 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) unspecified All All CLOSED WONTFIX http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#the-blockquote-element NE P4 minor --- 1 w3c ian mike public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 26819 0 w3c 2009-09-03 15:14:22 +0000 The current draft (http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#the-blockquote-element) doesn't have any recommendations regarding insertion of quotation punctuation in the blockquote element. To be consistent with the proposal for the Q element (bug #7490), I'd suggest: [...] Content inside a blockquote must be quoted from another source, whose address, if it has one, should be cited in the cite attribute. [NEW]User agents MUST NOT insert quotation punctuation (such as quotation marks) into the rendering.[/NEW] I'd appreciate if any people who are more experienced than me would shape this text into something that is suited to go into a draft. See also http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/48 and http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2009Aug/1328.html 26820 1 w3c 2009-09-03 16:34:41 +0000 Leif Halvard Silli added (http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2009Sep/0211.html): I would suggest adding unless the default rendering is overridden by CSS so as to make it more congruent with what you said about <q>. 27466 2 ian 2009-09-22 01:13:57 +0000 Why would we say anything about quotation punctuation around <blockquote>? Surely block quotes aren't normally quoted anyway? I mean, we also don't say that paragraph shouldn't be quoted, or that headings shouldn't have quotes, or that <kbd> elements shouldn't have "toxic waste" punctuation next to them. If you disagree, please reopen the bug and explain why you are asking for this, so that I have a better idea of how to fix it.