How to indicate long quotations in an HTML document?


Use the <blockquote> tag to indicate long quotations. The HTML <blockquote> tag is used to include long quotations (i.e. quotations that span multiple lines). It should contain only block-level elements within it and not just plain text.

The following is the attribute −

Attribute
Value
Description
cite
URL
URL of the quote, if it is taken from the web.

Example

You can try to run the following code to implement <blockquote> tag in an HTML document −

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
   <head>
      <title>HTML blockquote Tag</title>
   </head>
   <body>
      <blockquote>Browsers generally render blockquote text as indented text. If your quoted text needs to display within a non-quoted paragraph, you should use the HTML q tag. Most browsers surround q text with quotation marks.</blockquote> <q>Browsers generally render blockquote text as indented text. If your quoted text needs to display within a non-quoted paragraph, you should use the HTML q tag. Most browsers surround q text with quotation marks.</q>
   </body>
</html>

Updated on: 24-Jun-2020

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