HTML Citations Quotations and Definitions

Here you will learn about Citations, Quotations, and Definitions in HTML. Let's start with citations in HTML

HTML Citations

A citation is used to display the text in a format that is different from the normal text. The text embedded within the citation element is normally displayed in an italic form. A citation is normally required to quote the statements or remarks of an author. The citation element is defined by an opening <CITE> tag and a closing </CITE> tag.

Example

HTML <cite> element is used to specify the work's title in an HTML document. Here is an example:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
	<title>HTML Citation Example</title>
</head>
<body>

<img src="img1.jpg" width="150" height="70" alt="citation">
<p><cite>HTML Citation</cite> - This is HTML Citation Example</p>

</body>
</html>

Here is the sample output produced by the above HTML citation example code:

HTML Quotations

The quotation tag is used to quote the text within the quotation marks. You should note that quotation marks are used when you reproduce someone else's statement in your document. The quotation tag is starts with an opening tag <Q> and ends with a closing tag </Q>

To learn more about HTML Quotations, then refer to HTML Quotations tutorial.

HTML Definitions

The definition element is used to list the definition of various terms. The definition tag is composed of the following three tags :

DL - Represents a definition list that is used to list the number of definitions
DT - Represents the terms in a definition
DD - Represents the definitions of the terms