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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 How to indicate long quotations in an HTML document?
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>