Quotes

In documents, especially in publications, we often use and quote external sources. In HTML two tags, <q> and <blockquote> can be used to mark these citations.

In the previous chapter, you tangentially learned about the <q> tag, as a way of formatting text.

To be more precise, <q> is a simpler text formatting tag, as it adds a special semantic to its content: this is a quotation that comes from another source.

While <q> is an inline tag, <blockquote> defines a block (section) of citation. Both elements have a cite attribute that specifies the URL pointing to the source of the quotation.

The Listing below shows a short example of these tags.

Listing: Using quotes