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HTML <blockquote> title Attribute

HTML <base>

HTML <body>

The title attribute on a <blockquote> tag adds a tooltip with title text to the blockquote.

Hovering the mouse over the blockquote will display the tooltip.

Example

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A title attribute on a <blockquote>.
Hover over the quote to see the tooltip.

And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.

-- President Kennedy, 1961, Inaugural address

<acticle>
  <blockquote title="Inaugural speach by John F. Kennedy">
     And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country 
     can do for you – ask what you can do for your country. 
     My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America 
     will do for you, but what together we can do for the 
     freedom of man.
  </blockquote> 

  -- President Kennedy, 1961, Inaugural address
</article>

Code explanation

The title attribute is placed in the <blockquote> opening tag.
The value can be any string.
Hover the cursor over the blockquote and a tooltip appears.

Using title

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The title attributes provides additional information about the <blockquote> element.

The title attribute value can be seen as tooltip.

Tooltips are shown when the blockquote element is hovered.

Syntax

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<blockquote title="value">

Values

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Value	Description
value	A string value. A title can span multiple lines by including newline or carriage-return characters: or .

Browser support

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Here is when title support started for each browser:

Chrome	1.0	Sep 2008
Firefox	1.0	Sep 2002
IE/Edge	1.0	Aug 1995
Opera	1.0	Jan 2006
Safari	1.0	Jan 2003

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Jack Poorte

Last updated on Sep 30, 2023