BLOCKQUOTE quoted passage HTML 2.0

BLOCKQUOTE

Purpose

quoted passage

Description

This element encloses text which is intended to be taken from another source--a long quotation. Note that browsers will not automatically put in quotation marks around the quoted test. Some browsers don't indent quoted text very much; some developers put quotes around the text to make sure the quotation is properly indicated.

Start tag

Required <BLOCKQUOTE>

Attributes

Name	Type	Default	Comment
SDAFORM	CDATA	#FIXED "BQ"	one to one mapping; in support of transformation to the International Committee for Accessible Document Design DTD for usable access to structured information by print-impaired individuals

Content

( H1 | H2 | H3 | H4 | H5 | H6 | P | UL | OL | DIR | MENU | DL | PRE | BLOCKQUOTE | FORM | ISINDEX | HR | ADDRESS | IMG )*

End tag

Required </BLOCKQUOTE>

Referenced in

BLOCKQUOTE BODY DD DIR FORM LI MENU

Example

Source	Appearance
In a critical point in <CITE>The House of Seven Gables</CITE> by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Clifford says: <BLOCKQUOTE> <P>Is it a fact--or have I dreamt it--that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time? </BLOCKQUOTE> Later in the book, this imagery plays an important role.	In a critical point in The House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Clifford says: Is it a fact--or have I dreamt it--that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time? Later in the book, this imagery plays an important role.