Blockquote element

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This article is about the HTML element. For the text quotation style, see block quotation.
For Wikipedia's blockquote guideline, see MOS:Blockquote

In HTML and XHTML, the blockquote element defines "a section [within a document] that is quoted from another source".[1] The syntax is <blockquote><p>blockquoted text goes here</p></blockquote>.


The non-semantic use of the blockquote element purely to indent text is deprecated by the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) in the current (1999) HTML 4.01 Specification,[2] which is also the basis for XHTML 1.0. The preferred approach is the use of CSS.


Related (X)HTML elements include the <q> and <cite> elements for shorter, probably in-line, quotations and for citations respectively. An (X)HTML attribute specific to the <blockquote> and <q> elements is cite= where the provenance of the material quoted may be given. If the quotation is in a language other than that of the main document, lang= and maybe dir= attributes may be relevant to specify the language of the quoted text and perhaps its direction, left-to-right or right-to-left. class= may be used for semantic or styling purposes.

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In many Wiki markup languages, the semantics and effect of HTML <blockquote> is different from the use of an initial colon in a paragraph, which may be translated into an HTML dd element enclosed within a dl element. (That is a "data definition" within a "definition list", without there being any preceding "data term" or dt element).

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