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<h2 id="usage">Usage</h2> <p>Related <a href="/facts/HTML_element/s4TKzjUP">HTML elements</a> include the <q> and <cite> tags for shorter, probably in-line, <a href="/facts/Quotations/dm2uTzGV">quotations</a> and for <a href="/facts/Citations/V9cIWxl8">citations</a> respectively. An <a href="/facts/HTML_attribute/0zRQefTK">HTML attribute</a> specific to the <blockquote> and <q> tags is cite= where the provenance of the material quoted may be given. If the quotation is in a language other than that of the main document, lang= and maybe dir= attributes may be relevant to specify the language of the quoted text and perhaps its direction, left-to-right or right-to-left. class= may be used for semantic or styling purposes. </p> <h2 id="relationship-to-some-wiki-markup-and-usage">Relationship to some wiki markup and usage</h2> <p>In many <a href="/facts/Wiki/uCKCEzqb">Wiki</a> <a href="/facts/Wikitext/uCKCEzqb">markup languages</a>, the semantics and effect of HTML <blockquote> is different from the use of an initial colon in a paragraph, which may be translated into an HTML dd element enclosed within a dl element. (That is a "data definition" within a "definition list", without there being any preceding "data term" or dt element). </p> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Block_quotation/GtBSgIQJ">Block quotation</a></li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/text.html#h-9.2.2">W3C</a></li> <li><a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/blockquote">MDN</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_blockquote.asp">W3Schools</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"4.4.4 The blockquote element — HTML5". World Wide Web Consortium. Retrieved 11 November 2015. <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/grouping-content.html#the-blockquote-element" target="_blank">http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/grouping-content.html#the-blockquote-element</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>HTML definition of ‘blockquote’ <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/text.html#edef-BLOCKQUOTE" target="_blank">http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/text.html#edef-BLOCKQUOTE</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>