Building web pages with XHTML 1.1 |  |
Building web pages with XHTML 1.1 | |
There are two ways to include a quotation in your
document. If your quotation is to be “run
in,” inside a regular paragraph, see the q element in Section 10, “Inline content: Inline.model”.
The usual practice for longer quotes is to display them
as a separate block, often with wider margins than the
surrounding material. For such longer quotes, place the
quoted material within a blockquote
element. Here is the content model:
element blockquote
{ attribute cite { xsd:anyURI }?,
Common.attrib,
Block.class+
}
cite
This optional attribute allows you to point at an online source for the quotation. Use the URI of the online source as the value of this attribute.
Common.attrib
Any of the attributes described in Section 15.3, “The common attributes: Common.attrib”.
Block.class+
You will need to wrap the content of the blockquote element inside one or more
block elements such as p or div. See Section 9, “The block elements”.
Here's an example:
<p>
As a great duck once said:
</p>
<blockquote cite="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052139/">
<div>
Ho! Ha ha! Guard! Turn! Parry! Dodge! Spin! Thrust!
</div>
</blockquote>