Everybody likes a good quote, whether it be a monologue from Hamlet or a particularly pithy piece of your own work.
From a design point of view, quotes are a handy for breaking up your web content and highlighting useful parts of our document. They are essential for any webpage that is using material quoted from elsewhere, such as a weblog. Fortunately (X)HTML provides a number of tags to help mark-up our quoted content correctly.
In this tutorial we're going to look at quotes, and how you can use the correct markup for them in (X)HTML, and how you can style this markup with CSS so that it's semantically valid AND nice to look at.
A man of many talents, Matt has been a web designer, technical editor, and jewellery picker. He is currently on contract for the Birmingham City University, producing pages for research centres.
He has tech-edited a dozen books on web design and development for glasshaus, Apress and Sitepoint.
He likes music with loud guitars and games with obscure rules.
His website can be found at: http://www.eclecticdreams.com
He lives in Birmingham with his girlfriend, Frances, and a horde of spider plants.