4.5 BLOCKQUOTE Element

The BLOCKQUOTE element defines a block quotation of text. A typical browser will render this in an appropriate way, for example by slightly indenting the text, or by italicizing it. BLOCKQUOTE also causes a paragraph break, and typically forces white space both before and after the quotation.

BLOCKQUOTE can contain paragraphs, and most standard markup.

4.5.1 Example of BLOCKQUOTE

For example, the following text:

I think it ends
<BLOCKQUOTE><P>Soft you now, the fair Ophelia. Nymph, in 
thy orisons, be all my sins remembered.  Fair twilight, 
and foxy swarms of ants, did slyly open the jars of jam. </p>
</BLOCKQUOTE>
but I might be wrong.

Is rendered as follows:

I think it ends

Soft you now, the fair Ophelia. Nymph, in thy orisons, be all my sins remembered. Fair twilight, and foxy swarms of ants, did slyly open the jars of jam.

but I might be wrong.

4.5.1 Attributes

In HTML 3.2 and up, BLOCKQUOTE can take the ALIGN attribute to specify how the text inside BLOCKQUOTE should be aligned. The supported values are