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Originally Posted by JSWolf
… because offset text is what <blockquote> was designed for.
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Yes, it is because an extended quote is visually offset somehow as opposed to a short quote. Browsers have simply defaulted to margins to achieve that offset. I assume that is to mirror the traditional offset that typesetters had access to for ages. With ebooks, and the use of css, that offset can have any manner or means to make it stand apart from the normal text; color, background, border, font, etc.
We are talking about semantics here…that means definitions…. If you choose to
NOT use the semantically correct tags, that’s on you. I could care less if you choose to use <blockquote> instead of <p> around every paragraph or even each sentence!!
