Blockquotes

[Paul Wake]

Awhile back I looked into why my blockquotes at
http://www.xmission.com/~wake/section26.html weren't validating, and it appeared
it was because they were imbedded in paragraphs, and shouldn't have been since
apparently that's a block level element inside another block level element. Now
I've separated them out separately, and the validator still tells me that's
wrong. Is there a nutshell description of how to do blockquotes correctly?
(Apart from the W3 standard itself, which isn't written for the layperson.)
Thanks.

[Steve Pugh]

Paul Wake wrote:

Awhile back I looked into why my blockquotes at
http://www.xmission.com/~wake/section26.html
I get a 404
weren't validating, and it appeared
it was because they were imbedded in paragraphs, and shouldn't have been since
apparently that's a block level element inside another block level element. Now
I've separated them out separately, and the validator still tells me that's
wrong. Is there a nutshell description of how to do blockquotes correctly?
(Apart from the W3 standard itself, which isn't written for the layperson.)

Which doctype are you validating against? If it's a strict doctype then
blockquotes can not contain bare text but must contain block level
containers.
e.g. <blockquote><p>quoted paragraph one</p><p>quoted paragraph
two</p></blockquote>

Steve

[Lars Eighner]

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Awhile back I looked into why my blockquotes at
http://www.xmission.com/~wake/section26.html weren't validating, and it appeared
it was because they were imbedded in paragraphs, and shouldn't have been since
apparently that's a block level element inside another block level element. Now
I've separated them out separately, and the validator still tells me that's
wrong. Is there a nutshell description of how to do blockquotes correctly?
(Apart from the W3 standard itself, which isn't written for the layperson.)
Thanks.

At the moment they would seem not to validate because the page
is 404.
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[Paul Wake]

In article <11**********************@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups .com>, Steve Pugh
says...

I get a 404 Which doctype are you validating against? If it's a strict doctype then
blockquotes can not contain bare text but must contain block level
containers.
e.g. <blockquote><p>quoted paragraph one</p><p>quoted paragraph
two</p></blockquote>

Oops. http://www.xmission.com/~wake/section27.html (not section 26). The
paragraph tags going inside the blockquotes isn't something I did.

[Darin McGrew]

Paul Wake <wa**********@xmission.com> wrote:

Oops. http://www.xmission.com/~wake/section27.html (not section 26). The
paragraph tags going inside the blockquotes isn't something I did.

Feeding it to <http://www.xmission.com/~wake/section27.html> I get:

| <blockquote>other states are relying with increasing
| Error: text is not allowed here; try wrapping the text in a more
| descriptive container

You're using XHTML 1.0 Strict. BLOCKQUOTE elements can contain only
block-level elements, so you need to wrap your inline content in a
block-level element.
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