- From: David Perrell <davidp@earthlink.net>
- Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 16:10:16 -0700
- To: "Chris Lilley" <Chris.Lilley@sophia.inria.fr>, <www-style@w3.org>
Chris Lilley wrote: > ... > Since you are talking of quoted material arranged in paragraphs, blockquote > would be appropriate. Appropriate? Hmm. When quotes occur within a storyline and multi-paragraph quotations are the exception, the effect would be jarring without stylesheets. > A stylesheet could arrange for an open quote to be applied before each > blockquote and a close quote to be appended to the last one (in CSS, > using a special class to identify the last blockquote of that quoted > section. Or you could surround the section with a div and generate the > closing quote on that. This assumes that before and after pseudo-elements are adopted (you've made an argument in favor). You could then forgo Q altogether by declaring an inline class of BLOCKQUOTE. All quotations would be block on legacy browsers. David Perrell
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