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- What is it?
- The Blockquote tag element usually indicates text quoted from
another source. It is usually rendered with a left indent and possibly
an equal right indent also.
Style Sheet Attributes
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- Class
- 2 | 3
| 3.2 | IE3B1
| M | N4B2
- Required? No
- Description:
This represents an assigned semantic classification grouping(s) for the
current tag.
- Values:
Given as a comma separated list of alphanumeric characters. Class names
may contain spaces (multiple consecutive spaces treated as a single
space.)
- ID
- 2 | 3
| 3.2 | IE3B1
| M | N4B2
- Required? No
- Description:
This assigns an alpha-numeric identifier that is unique
to this tag instance. Style sheets may use this attribute to reference
the current instance of this tag. Hyperlinks may also use this identifier
to serve as a destination.
- Values:
An alphanumeric string - initial character must be a letter followed
by alphabetic characters, digits, "-" or "."
characters. The allowable set of alpha-characters is restricted to the
A-Z and a-z set.
- Style
- 2 | 3
| 3.2 | IE3B1
| M | N4B3
- Required? No
- Description:
This attribute is a text string that provides rendering style
information for the current tag.
- Values:
Please see the description of
inline styles for more
information on how to use this attribute and its
possible values.
- Example
- <blockquote>text</blockquote>
- Parent Model
- %Block Format
Parent% |
%Multimedia
Parent% |
<Body> |
<Basefont>
- Content Model
- %Text% |
%Anchors% |
%Virtual Formatting% |
%Physical Formatting% |
%Line Break Content% |
%Multimedia Content%
%Block Content% |
<address> |
<basefont> |
<Hx>
Tips & Tricks
- Many authors use this tag to indent text, because the indenting
is standard behavior on most all browsers. In theory, one should not
use this tag for this purpose (it should only be used in situations where
you wish to quote a source), but if you REALLY need bulk indenting,
this tag is probably your best choice (another alternative to indenting
is the Definition List structure.)
Browser Peculiarities
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