On 04/04/2010 10:38, Chris Price wrote:
Blockquote is one of those tags that was badly misused for styling
purposes. Now it can only be used within a block level element, namely
p. I like to use the q tag because it introduces quote marks in Firefox.
I can't see what value it now has. Being a block quote you would assume
it is a block element but if it requires a container it just seems to be
an unnecessary layer. Wouldn't it be better to simply encase a quote in
a p and give a class 'blockquote'?
blockquote allows you to pull together multiple paragraphs as part of a
single quote. just having separate paragraphs with <q>s would just not
mark them as being part of the same quote, rather than separate quotes.
*if* you've only got a single-paragraph quote, this line gets blurry
though. one thing blockquote does have that q doesn't is also the cite
attribute (as minimally useful as it is today).
P
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