Blockquotes

If you would like to quote a passage longer than about one sentence, you can use the element BLOCKQUOTE. On most browsers, text contained within a BLOCKQUOTE element is set apart by normal paragraphs with indentation. However, this is not always the case. You should only use BLOCKQUOTE if you are actually quoting a longer piece of text. You should never use BLOCKQUOTE as a way to indent text.

BLOCKQUOTE does not take any attributes. Here is an example:

<BLOCKQUOTE>
Unlike Europeans, jealous of their possessions
and of their privacy, Americans did not build walls around their houses.
The new suburban yard in the United States followed a naturalistic or
romantic approach.  It was inspired by the English, with antecedents in
the Orient, and seemed well suited to the spaciousness of the New World
suburbs.
</BLOCKQUOTE>

<P ALIGN="RIGHT">- Kenneth T. Jackson, <CITE>Crabgrass Frontier</CITE></P>

Which is rendered as:

Unlike Europeans, jealous of their possessions and of their privacy, Americans did not build walls around their houses. The new suburban yard in the United States followed a naturalistic or romantic approach. It was inspired by the English, with antecedents in the Orient, and seemed well suited to the spaciousness of the New World suburbs.

- Kenneth T. Jackson, Crabgrass Frontier

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The element CITE marks the text as the title of a cited work. We cover this at Text Level Elements.

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