The blockquote element indicates an extended quotation.
Overview TableThe blockquote element represents content that is quoted from another source, optionally with a citation which must be within a footer or cite element, and optionally with in-line changes such as annotations and abbreviations.
Content inside a blockquote other than citations and in-line changes must be quoted from another source, whose address, if it has one, may be cited in the cite attribute.
If the cite attribute is present, it must be a valid URL potentially surrounded by spaces. To obtain the corresponding citation link, the value of the attribute must be resolved relative to the element. User agents may allow users to follow such citation links, but they are primarily intended for private use (e.g. by server-side scripts collecting statistics about a site's use of quotations), not for readers.
The cite IDL attribute must reflect the element’s cite content attribute.
HTML Attributescite = valid URL potentially surrounded by spaces
<p>He said,
<blockquote cite="http://www.example.com">"Hi there!"</blockquote>
The blockquote element represents content that is quoted from another source, optionally with a citation which must be within a footer or cite element, and optionally with in-line changes such as annotations and abbreviations. For example, in English, abbreviations are traditionally identified using square brackets. Consider a page with the sentence "Fred ate the cracker. He then said he liked apples and fish."; it could be quoted as follows:
<blockquote>
<p>[Fred] then said he liked [...] fish.</p>
</blockquote>
Quotation marks may be used to delineate between quoted text and annotations within a blockquote.
<figure>
<blockquote>
"That monster custom, who all sense doth eat
Of habit's devil," <abbr title="et cetera">&c.</abbr> not in Folio
"What a falling off was there !
From me, whose love was of that dignity
That it went hand in hand even with the vow
I made to her in marriage, and to decline
Upon a wretch."
</blockquote>
<footer>
— <cite class="title">Shakespeare manual</cite> by <cite class="author">Frederick Gard Fleay</cite>,
p19 (in Google Books)
</footer>
</figure>
Attribution for the quotation may be be placed inside the blockquote element, but must be within a cite element for in-text attributions or within a footer element.
<blockquote>
<p>I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer
god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other
possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.</p>
<footer>— <cite>Stephen Roberts</cite></footer>
</blockquote>
<blockquote>
The people recognize themselves in their commodities; they find their
soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment.
— <cite><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Marcuse">Herbert Marcuse</a></cite>
</blockquote>
<blockquote>
<p>... she said she would not sign any deposition containing the word "amorous" instead of "advances". For her the difference was of crucial significance, and one of the reasons she had separated from her husband was that he had never been amorous but had consistently made advances.</p>
<footer itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Book">
<span itemprop="author">Heinrich Böll</span>,
<span itemprop="name">The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum</span>,
<span itemprop="datePublished">January 1, 1974</span>
</footer>
</blockquote>
<blockquote>
<p>My favorite book is <cite class="from-source">At Swim-Two-Birds</cite></p>
<footer>- <cite>Mike[tm]Smith</cite></footer>
</blockquote>
The other examples below show other ways of showing attribution.
<figure>
<blockquote>
<p>The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true. We have a method, and that method helps us to reach not absolute truth, only asymptotic approaches to the truth — never there, just closer and closer, always finding vast new oceans of undiscovered possibilities. Cleverly designed experiments are the key.</p>
</blockquote>
<figcaption><cite>Carl Sagan</cite>, in "<cite>Wonder and Skepticism</cite>", from the <cite>Skeptical Enquirer</cite> Volume 19, Issue 1 (January-February 1995)</figcaption>
</figure>
<p>His next piece was the aptly named <cite>Sonnet 130</cite>:</p>
<blockquote cite="http://quotes.example.org/s/sonnet130.html">
<p>My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun,<br>
Coral is far more red, than her lips red,<br>
...
<article>
<h1><a href="http://bacon.example.com/?blog=109431">Bacon on a crowbar</a></h1>
<article>
<header><strong>t3yw</strong> 12 points 1 hour ago</header>
<p>I bet a narwhal would love that.</p>
<footer><a href="?pid=29578">permalink</a></footer>
<article>
<header><strong>greg</strong> 8 points 1 hour ago</header>
<blockquote><p>I bet a narwhal would love that.</p></blockquote>
<p>Dude narwhals don't eat bacon.</p>
<footer><a href="?pid=29579">permalink</a></footer>
<article>
<header><strong>t3yw</strong> 15 points 1 hour ago</header>
<blockquote>
<blockquote><p>I bet a narwhal would love that.</p></blockquote>
<p>Dude narwhals don't eat bacon.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Next thing you'll be saying they don't get capes and wizard
hats either!</p>
<footer><a href="?pid=29580">permalink</a></footer>
<article>
<article>
<header><strong>boing</strong> -5 points 1 hour ago</header>
<p>narwhals are worse than ceiling cat</p>
<footer><a href="?pid=29581">permalink</a></footer>
</article>
</article>
</article>
</article>
<article>
<header><strong>fred</strong> 1 points 23 minutes ago</header>
<blockquote><p>I bet a narwhal would love that.</p></blockquote>
<p>I bet they'd love to peel a banana too.</p>
<footer><a href="?pid=29582">permalink</a></footer>
</article>
</article>
</article>
<p>He began his list of "lessons" with the following:</p>
<blockquote>One should never assume that his side of
the issue will be recognized, let alone that it will
be conceded to have merits.</blockquote>
<p>He continued with a number of similar points, ending with:</p>
<blockquote>Finally, one should be prepared for the threat
of breakdown in negotiations at any given moment and not
be cowed by the possibility.</blockquote>
<p>We shall now discuss these points...
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