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HTML Quote, Blockquote, and Cite elements.
Posted by Dan Gayle in
3 Nov 2009 — 4:34pm
3 Nov 2009 — 4:34pm
I hate to bring this up, but it has always bothered me about Typophile:
Quotations are the backbone of discussion, but two positively mundane HTML elements, <q> and <blockquote>, are disallowed?
Because of this, the poor <cite> element is used and abused, although it is not the most appropriate markup for quotations.
According to the W3C, "<cite>" is markup for text which "contains a citation or a reference to other sources." (HTML 4.01 Specification § 9.2.1 Phrase elements)
Allowing <cite> is fine, even giving it a little semantic wiggle room, but not allowing <q> or <blockquote> is just plain silly.
Given that this is a forum for discussion, shouldn't the proper markup be allowed?
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4 Nov 2009 — 5:37am
.. shouldn't the proper markup be allowed?
Hear, hear.
(Another technical improvement would be automatically closing all tags in comments at the end of that comment.)
4 Nov 2009 — 8:32am
Closing the tags would be a great addition as well.
4 Nov 2009 — 9:58am
(Comment removed because those darned > > signs don’t display in a certain context.)
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Bert Vanderveen BNO
4 Nov 2009 — 12:36pm
@bert_vanderveen
In order to display
<or>signs, you need to use html entities<or>