Brilliant Ways to Style Blockquotes
The blockquote XHTML tag is a fairly useful (if somewhat underused) element. Semantically speaking, a blockquote should be used any time you’re quoting a longer piece of text from another source – another speaker, another website, whatever. It’s a way of setting the text apart, and showing that it came from some other source. Stylistically, you could accomplish all this with a special class on your paragraph tags… but that wouldn’t be as semantically useful, now, would it?
Blockquotes do have some styling by default. Most browsers will indent the text in a blockquote tag, which helps the user recognize that the text is different somehow. But who’s to say that we need to stop there? Here are six different ways you could style your blockquotes using CSS.
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Knowtebook
Sep 02, 2009
No: 4 / ID: 4791
hey andy. thanks for your info. i just updated the link.
Andy J Cruz
Sep 02, 2009
No: 3 / ID: 4785
You did a nice job of giving some examples. I have been experimenting on my site too. By the way any way to use this as you did where the block quote is turned a little?
Knowtebook
Jul 22, 2008
No: 2 / ID: 1033
this is definately a good idea. there are not so many inspiration sources out there for them and i always underestimated the power of good looking quotes. keep me updated please
Jeff Finley
Jul 22, 2008
No: 1 / ID: 1029
Awesome, I’m doing a big post on our blog that cites a lot of text from various interviews I did with other designers. I think before I post it I’ll come up with a cool way to style blockquotes first.