In HTML and XHTML, the blockquote element defines a block quotation within the text. The syntax is <blockquote><p>blockquoted text goes here</p></blockquote>. The blockquote element is used to indicate the quotation of a large section of text from another source. Using the default HTML styling of most web browsers, it will indent the right and left margins both on the display and in printed form.

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  • In HTML and XHTML, the blockquote element defines a block quotation within the text. The syntax is <blockquote><p>blockquoted text goes here</p></blockquote>. The blockquote element is used to indicate the quotation of a large section of text from another source. Using the default HTML styling of most web browsers, it will indent the right and left margins both on the display and in printed form. The non-semantic use of the blockquote element purely to indent text is deprecated by the W3C in the current (1999) HTML 4.01 Specification, which is also the basis for XHTML 1.0. The preferred approach is the use of CSS.
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  • In HTML and XHTML, the blockquote element defines a block quotation within the text. The syntax is <blockquote><p>blockquoted text goes here</p></blockquote>. The blockquote element is used to indicate the quotation of a large section of text from another source. Using the default HTML styling of most web browsers, it will indent the right and left margins both on the display and in printed form.
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  • Blockquote
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