HTML Quotations

When a page repeats words that someone else wrote, HTML has elements that say so. They tell the browser, screen readers and search engines which words are a quotation, which words are the title of the work they come from, and what a short form such as an abbreviation stands for.

The examples in this lesson come from one page: the web page of a small book club that is discussing two classic English novels.

Short quotations inside a sentence: <q>

The <q> element marks a short quotation that sits inside a sentence