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Guide/e/blockquote
The blockquote element
Element Summary
Sectioning block-level element, and structured inline-level element.
The blockquote element represents a section that is quoted from another source.
Content inside a blockquote must be quoted from another source, whose URI, if it has one, should be cited in the cite attribute.
If the cite attribute is present, it must be a URI (or IRI). User agents should allow users to follow such citation links.
If a blockquote element is preceded or followed by a p element that contains a single cite element and is itself not preceeded or followed by another blockquote element and does not itself have a q element descendant, then, the citation given by that cite element gives the source of the quotation contained in the blockquote element.
Each blockquote element potentially has a heading. See the section on headings and sections for further details.
The cite DOM attribute reflects the element's cite content attribute.
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Examples
<html ... >
<head>
...
</head>
<body>
<h1>Document</h1>
<blockquote cite="http://www.w3.org/wai/">
<p>The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect.</p>
<p> -- Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director and inventor of the World Wide Web</p>
</blockquote>
</body>
</html>
See Also
Guidelines
- WCAG 1.0 Checkpoint 3.7 Mark up quotations. Do not use quotation markup for formatting effects such as indentation. [Priority 2]
- WCAG 2.0 Technique G115: Using semantic elements to mark up structure