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Monday, December 20, 2010

The Citation Element

The Citation <cite> element is used to provide a bibliographic citation or reference, such as a person, the title of a book, poem, song or movie. It may also be the name of a magazine, news paper or website.

Listed below are the most common attributes you can use for the citation element:
  • class - provides the class or classes of the heading. This attribute is used to identify the name of the style class or classes to be used for rendering.
  • id - provides a unique name for the heading.
  • lang - provides the language in which the enclosed content is coded.
  • style - provides a cascading style sheet (CSS) properties to the heading.
  • title - privides a text title for the heading. Most web browser displays the value of the title as "tooltip".

Here's an example on how to use the citation <cite> element:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
    <head>
         <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=utf-8" />
         <mate name="keywords" content="blog, web development" />
         <title>the CITATION element</title>
     </head>

     <body>
       <h1>
         the CITATION element
       </h1>
         An article from the Wall Street says:
       <p>
           The Gates Foundation said it still believes microbicides will prove valuable in fighting the spread of AIDS. "It's a disappointment," <cite>Nick Hellmann, the Gates Foundation's interim director of HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis</cite>, said in an interview. He noted that developing drugs is a "long, tortuous road," but said "we have to proceed, stay the course and learn more lessons about what is required fir the optimum microbicide product."
        </p>
    </body>
</html>


 

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