{"id":4361,"date":"2024-11-08T10:20:56","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T15:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/?p=4361"},"modified":"2024-11-08T10:20:57","modified_gmt":"2024-11-08T15:20:57","slug":"blockquote-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/blockquote-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Blockquote HTML"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Heydon <a href=\"https:\/\/heydonworks.com\/article\/the-blockquote-element\/\">blogged about <code>&lt;blockquote><\/code><\/a> and Michelle <a href=\"https:\/\/css-irl.info\/ive-been-doing-blockquotes-wrong\/\">blogged our collective sigh<\/a> at how unfortunately hard the simple act of <a href=\"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/quoting-in-html-quotations-citations-and-blockquotes\/\">quoting something<\/a> is. You&#8217;re not supposed to put a <code>&lt;cite><\/code> inside the <code>&lt;blockquote><\/code> which I find obnoxious especially because <a href=\"https:\/\/adrianroselli.com\/2023\/07\/blockquotes-in-screen-readers.html#Example06\">the screenreader situation<\/a> seems fine with that pattern (this WordPress blog does it that way by default). Adrian doesn&#8217;t like the <code>&lt;figure><\/code>\u00a0with\u00a0<code>&lt;figcaption><\/code> approach (too verbose) but that&#8217;s what Heydon recommends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since this is conflict, it&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/html-design-principles\/#priority-of-constituencies\">Priority of Constituencies<\/a> of time:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>In case of conflict, consider users over authors over implementors over specifiers over theoretical purity.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Since it seems to be a good option for users (and me), I&#8217;m gonna forsake the specs and say <code>&lt;cite><\/code> inside <code>&lt;blockquote><\/code> is fine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heydon blogged about &lt;blockquote> and Michelle blogged our collective sigh at how unfortunately hard the simple act of quoting something is. You&#8217;re not supposed to put a &lt;cite> inside the &lt;blockquote> which I find obnoxious especially because the screenreader situation seems fine with that pattern (this WordPress blog does it that way by default). Adrian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sig_custom_text":"","sig_image_type":"featured-image","sig_custom_image":0,"sig_is_disabled":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[258,31],"class_list":["post-4361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-beat","tag-blockquote","tag-html"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/pexels-photo-6633015.jpeg?fit=1880%2C1253&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4361"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4363,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4361\/revisions\/4363"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}