When you're writing text in a Web page, you sometimes want to call out a block of text as a quotation. In publishing this is sometimes called a pull-quote, and in Web design it's called a blockquote.
You use blockquote to define long quotations, such as this excerpt from "The Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll:
'Twas brillig and the slithey toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
(by Lewis Carroll)
The blockquote tag was intended to be used just for quotations, and some older browsers display the text in italics as well as indented.
To add the <blockquote></blockquote> tag to your text, simply surround the text that is a quotation with <blockquote></blockquote> For example:
<blockquote cite="http://www.jabberwocky.com/carroll/jabber/jabberwocky.html">
'Twas brillig and the slithey toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
</blockquote>
Learn more about the <blockquote></blockquote> tag.
Blockquote is ONLY for Quotations
If you need to indent your text, you should use style sheets. Try putting this code in your Web page:
<p style="margin : 0 10px 0 10px;">
This paragraph has been indented 10 px on the right and left.
</p>
You should only indent using the margin style property.
