HTML Quotations - Detailed Overview

Introduction to HTML Quotations

HTML provides several elements to handle quotations, citations, and references. These elements help to clearly define different types of quoted content and ensure proper semantics in your HTML documents.

Quotation Elements

Here are some common HTML elements used for quotations:

<q>: Short inline quotation.
<blockquote>: Block-level quotation for longer quotes.
<cite>: Reference to the source of a quotation.
<abbr>: Abbreviation or acronym.
<dfn>: Defining instance of a term.

Examples of HTML Quotations

Inline Quotation

<q>This is an inline quotation.</q>

This is an inline quotation.

Block Quotation

<blockquote cite="https://example.com">
    This is a block-level quotation.
</blockquote>

This is a block-level quotation.

Citation

<cite>Shakespeare</cite>

Shakespeare

Abbreviation

<abbr title="HyperText Markup Language">HTML</abbr>

HTML

Defining Instance

<dfn>HTML</dfn> is a markup language.</code>

HTML is a markup language.