The <blockquote> Element and cite Attribute

The following description of XHTML is taken from the W3C Web site. It is contained inside a <blockquote> element, which also carries a cite attribute.

XHTML 1.0 is the W3C's first Recommendation for XHTML, following on from earlier work on HTML 4.01, HTML 4.0, HTML 3.2 and HTML 2.0.

Note how the preceding paragraph is indented from the rest of the text.

The <q> Element for Small Quotations

If your quotation is going to appear only within a sentence, you should use the <q> element. The following sentence uses the <q> element to form a quote:

As Dylan Thomas said, Somebody's boring me. I think it's me.

The <cite> Element for Quoting Text From Another Source

This chapter is taken from Beginning Web Programming.