Apologies for being a bit slow on the uptake but the always
informative Roger Johansson (456bereastreet) has this useful article
[1] which supports what's been said and provides useful links to the
HTML4 spec.
James
[1]
Actually, the requirement for having p (or
whatever) in your blockquotes is sort of a weird
one, IMHO. I believe they've planned to remove that
from xhtml2, but in your case it makes sense anyways.
--- Cole Kuryakin - x7m [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've inserted a bunch of brs
within the quote in
.
I'll take a stab at overflow - never used it before - instead of the
brs.
Cole
- Original Message -
From: Mr Bean [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 10:54 PM
Subject: Re: [WSG] Blockquote or Q?
Actually, the requirement for having p
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 20:40:53 +0800, Cole Kuryakin - x7m wrote:
So, semantically speaking, should I be using Blockquote or Q tags?
Blockquote, I beleive - you're correct in that q is meant for inline
eg
psome text qwhat he said/q more text./p
I normally start my css file with
* {
margin: 0;
In writing (like not-web writing) there is a thing were quotes that are
just are just a few lines are written in the normal flow of the text;
however, if a quote is more than 3-4 lines it is separate and indented
(about .5' on each side, but it depends on whose rules you use).
Anyways that is
Hi Cole,
Blockquote for sure, and like Alan suggest, make use of
normal tags inside.
And let me give you a nice trick to insert language
specific quotemarks :
If you declare the language in your HTML tag
likehtml lang="fr-ca" ... you can define inside
your CSS what kind of quote mark to
On 4/19/05, Alan Trick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anyways that is what blockquote was meant to refer to. I your situation
I would use
div id='sidebar'
blockquote
pI am seldom attracted to books of this genre.p
pThis author was recommended by a friend, and I couldn't put it
Hughes -
That is a neat trick. Thanks for sharing!
Cole
- Original Message -
From:
Hugues
Brunelle
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 11:11
PM
Subject: RE: [WSG] Blockquote or Q?
Hi Cole,
Blockquote for sure, and like Alan suggest
. Just a
design thing. Is this really a no, no or would this be permissable?
Cole
- Original Message -
From: Alan Trick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 9:43 PM
Subject: Re: [WSG] Blockquote or Q?
In writing (like not-web writing
