The blockquote element
November 4, 2013 at 9:05 pm in HTML5, Semantic Markup
In HTML5, the <blockquote> element is meant to be used to mark up quotes from external sources, with or without citations. The specification has recently been altered to allow developers to place <cite> tags, used for citations, inside of the <blockquote> tags.
You can mark up a citation to a quote like this now:
<blockquote>
<p>
The blockquote element represents a section that is quoted
from another source.
</p>
<p>
Content inside a blockquote must be quoted from
another source, whose address, if it has one,
may be cited in the cite attribute.
</p>
<footer>
- <cite>
<a href="http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec-preview/the-blockquote-element.html">W3C HTML5 Blockquote specification</a>
</cite>
</footer>
</blockquote>
Pretty awesome stuff.
