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136 LESSON 7: Formatting Text with HTML and CSS

Macbeth soliloquy I used in the example for line breaks would have worked better as a

<blockquote> than a s a simple paragraph. Here’s an example:

<p>From Shakespeare's <cite>MacBeth</cite>:

<blockquote>Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,<br>

Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,<br>

To the last syllable of recorded time;<br>

And all our yesterdays have lighted fools<br>

The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!<br>

Life's but a walking shadow; a poor player,<br>

That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,<br>

And then is heard no more: it is a tale <br>

Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, <br>

Signifying nothing.</blockquote>

As with paragraphs, you can split lines in a <blockquote> using the line break tag, <br>.

The following inp ut example shows a n example of this use:

Input ▼

<blockquote>

Guns aren't lawful, <br />

nooses give.<br />

gas smells awful.<br />

You might as well live.

</blockquote>

<p>-- Dorothy Parker</p>

Figure 7.9 shows how the preceding input example appears in a browser.

Output ▼

FIGURE 7.9

A block quotation.