Re: [WSG] Blockquote or Q?

Tue, 19 Apr 2005 17:10:55 -0700

Hughes -
 
That is a neat trick. Thanks for sharing!
 
Cole
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 11:11 PM
Subject: RE: [WSG] Blockquote or Q?

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 like <html lang="fr-ca" ...> you can define inside your CSS what kind of quote mark to insert before and after your blockquote, so then you do not have to manually insert those quote marks and forget about them :)
 
blockquote:lang(fr-ca) {
	quotes: " «" " »" " <" " >";
}
blockquote:before {
	content: open-quote;
}
blockquote:after {
	content: close-quote;
}
As you can see an exemple at http://www.echo3d.com/faq/
Later,
Hugues Brunelle
Concepteur graphique
 
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cole Kuryakin - x7m
Sent: April 19, 2005 07:41
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: [WSG] Blockquote or Q?

Hi everyone.
 
I'm working on a site that contains 1 boxed quote per page. By boxed, I mean there's a red border that encloses the quote.
 
These aren't famouse quotes - or anything particulary special - just quotes from people who have read the pre-release of a new book.
 
So, semantically speaking, should I be using Blockquote or Q tags?
 
I don't think Cite is appropriate, and I'm not sure about Q either as I've read that Q should be used for quotations within a block of inline text.
 
I'm leaning toward blockquote (stripping the indention via css), but I wanted to throw this question out and see if anyone had a strong opinion about this matter as it pertains to this particular project.
 
 
Thanks to all in advance,
 
Cole

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