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Bug 23315 - Modify blockquote element definition to allow citations
Summary: Modify blockquote element definition to allow citations
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 23314
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC Windows NT
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
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Depends on: 22996
Blocks: 23019 23021
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Reported: 2013-09-21 10:46 UTC by Sam Ruby
Modified: 2013-09-23 15:53 UTC (History)
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Description Sam Ruby 2013-09-21 10:46:05 UTC 
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #22996 +++

"The blockquote element represents a section that is quoted from another source."

http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/grouping-content.html#the-blockquote-element

modify blockquote definition to allow citations to be marked up inside the element using <footer>:

<blockquote>
<p>The <code><span class="pln">blockquote</span></code> element represents a section that is quoted from another source.</p>
<footer>&mdash; <cite><a title="4.5 Grouping content &mdash; HTML5" href="http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/grouping-content.html#the-blockquote-element">W3C HTML5 specification</a></cite></footer>
</blockquote>

refer to:
http://oli.jp/example/blockquote-metadata/
http://oli.jp/2011/blockquote/
http://html5doctor.com/blockquote-q-cite/

Recent discussion: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2013Aug/thread.html
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2013-09-23 15:53:05 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 23314 ***