Re: The HTML q element can sometimes be useful. Discuss.

On 4/27/2016 8:32 AM, Florian Rivoal wrote:
>
>> On Apr 27, 2016, at 16:14, Nick Barreto <nick@canelo.co 
>> <mailto:nick@canelo.co>> wrote:
>>
>>     Unlike sentence ending periods, quotation marks do change based
>>     on the styling of the document (more so for blockquote than for
>>     q, but still).
>>
>>
>> How semantically different are <q> and <blockquote>, apart from <q> 
>> clearly being inline? Or have I just described the entire difference?
>
> As far as I understand, that's the difference. Besides the 
> display:block vs display:inline, this also implies that typically, <q> 
> is in the middle of a sentence while <blockquote> is not, but I 
> believe that's it.
>
>  - Florian

Hmm, I thought that the <blockquote> makes no attempts to provide 
quotation marks.


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