Blockquote element

In HTML and XHTML, the blockquote element defines "a section [within a document] that is quoted from another source".

The non-semantic use of the blockquote element purely to indent text has been deprecated by the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) since HTML 4.

Related HTML elements include the and tags for shorter, probably in-line, quotations and for citations respectively.

An HTML attribute specific to the

and tags is cite= where the provenance of the material quoted may be given.

In many Wiki markup languages, the semantics and effect of HTML

is different from the use of an initial colon in a paragraph, which may be translated into an HTML dd element enclosed within a dl element.