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Blockquote Tag In HTML

In this article, we will discuss the blockquote tag in HTML.

Purpose

The blockquote indents the text and semantically, the blockquote section specifies that the text is taken from another source.

Syntax

<blockquote cite=""> Text </blockquote>

In the above code, the cite attribute specifies the source.

Example

Consider an example in which you are writing an article on the "Database Index" and you take a reference from Wikipedia. In that can use can specify that referenced text in blockquote tag. See the following code: -

<html>

<head>
	<title>blockquote Demo</title>
</head>

<body> In this article, we will discuss about index. Let us start with definition.
	<blockquote cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_index"> An index is a data structure which improves the speed of data retrieval operations on database table at the cost of additional writes and storage space to maintain the index data structure </blockquote>
</body>

</html>

Try It

In the preceding code, we have specified the source using the cite attribute.

Output

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Browser Support

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Posted By -	Karan Gupta

Posted On -	Monday, October 17, 2016

Updated On -	Saturday, October 7, 2017

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