Good news for all my web-based author friends out there. Guys, it’s time that we all raise a toast to HTML for instituting yet another set of tags for re-arranging texts in the web page! Very much different from the conventional set of tagging extensively used in the world of HTML, the BQ element is well used for unmitigated citations and excerpts. Wondering what BQ may stand for? Well… it is just the abbreviated form of HTML 2.0's BLOCKQUOTE. Typically, the blockquote facet is one of those very few HTML attributes that carry a precise meaning.
A lesson dedicated to the HTML blockquotes....
Welcome to Lesson 12 – Learning the Blockquote Basics
In customary writing pattern, whenever we have citations of a couple or more sentences to be included, we generally offset it distinctively from the main text portion as an aligned chunk of content. Considering this aspect, HTML 2.0 is no more the lingering truant. The HyperTextMarkupLingo 2.0 has gone a long way and brought with it the potentiality of aligning a hunk of quoted texts, courtesy its BQ tags. Although different in terms of functionality, the HTML blockquote element like its other HTML counterparts comprises of an opening and a closing tag. It is <blockquote> that turns the BQ feature on, and certainly it is the closing </blockquote> that turns it off. The BQ attribute is principally affianced to design the layout of a block of text as an elongated quotation that is aligned to a greater extent as compared to its adjacent text on either side.
Following is an example:
Within the HTML Blockquote element, web authors are given the entire freedom to use other HTML attributes like headings and paragraphs, lists and preformatted texts, special characters and footers enclosed within the <blockquote> tags.
Following is an example:
Finally, listed below are the 3 simple steps that’ll help you to apply a block quote in your HTML lesson document:
- Open the working HTML file in the text editor program.
- Under the <h1>General Introduction to HTML Lessons</h1> heading, add the following:
<BLOCKQUOTE>
<b><I>
"HTML – the mark-up lingo for the Internet"
</I></b><br>
Web Author, your online tutor to Writing HTML.
</BLOCKQUOTE>
note: In the example above, a combination of style tags (bold and italic) have been used to make the quotation stand out from the rest of the text. With the <br> tag, the excerpt has been forced to take on a new line. It should also be noted that the <blockquote> tag makes the citation stand out in a separate paragraph and sets it apart from the text above and below.
- Once you're done, save your HTML file, return to the web browser, reload your document and now you should be able to view the changes made.
Original Authors: Rajat
Edit Update Authors: M.A.Harris
Updated On: 26/05/2009
