| Depr. | Version |
|---|---|
| No | HTML 4 |
| IE8 | FF3.5 | SA4 | OP10 | CH2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| None | None | None | None | None |
Syntax
Description
Apart from the core and event attributes that are used
across all HTML elements, q has the
cite attribute, which is used to identify the
online source of the quotation in the form of a URI (for example,
"http://sourcewebsite.doc/document.html"). The value of
the cite attribute isn’t rendered on screen
(although this potentially useful meta data could be extracted and written
back into the web page through the magic of DOM Scripting). As such,
browser support for this attribute is marked as none, but because it has
other potential uses (for search engine indexing, retrieval via DOM
Scripting, and more) and there is the likelihood of improved native
support being provided for the attribute in future browser versions, you
should use the cite attribute when you use
q.
Example
This example shows a quote with the
correct attribution in the form of the cite
attribute:
<p>Heck, even Bill Gates is quoted as saying <q
cite="http://microformats.org/blog/2006/03/20/
➥bill-gates-at-mix06-we-need-microformats/">We
need Microformats,</q> which can only be a
good thing for the cause.</p>
Value
This attribute takes as its value a URI—the complete path (not a relative path from the quoting page) to the source of the quotation.
Compatibility
| Internet Explorer | Firefox | Safari | Opera | Chrome | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5.5 | 6.0 | 7.0 | 8.0 | 1.0 | 1.5 | 2.0 | 3.0 | 3.5 | 1.3 | 2.0 | 3.1 | 4.0 | 9.2 | 9.5 | 10.0 | 2.0 |
| None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None |
cite
is uniformly ignored by all browsers in a visual
sense.
