quote, unquote

[William Tasso]

Greetings one and all.

The mark up for quoted speech or, in this case, feedback is bugging me. I'm
currently using a list (<ul>...) to mark up the comments, but I feel I could
be doing more (or less) to make it clear that these are feedback comments.

Is there a useful primer or reference doc? or perhaps a clue someone would
like to share?

Thanks.

 

[Zak McGregor]

Greetings one and all.

The mark up for quoted speech or, in this case, feedback is bugging me.
I'm currently using a list (<ul>...) to mark up the comments, but I feel
I could be doing more (or less) to make it clear that these are feedback
comments.

Is there a useful primer or reference doc? or perhaps a clue someone
would like to share?

Isn't that what <blockquote> is for?

Ciao

Zak

 

[CJM]

Greetings one and all.

The mark up for quoted speech or, in this case, feedback is bugging me. I'm
currently using a list (<ul>...) to mark up the comments, but I feel I could
be doing more (or less) to make it clear that these are feedback comments.

Is there a useful primer or reference doc? or perhaps a clue someone would
like to share?

Thanks.

William

I've got a horrible feeling I've misunderstood you(!)

Isn't the <blockquote> (and potentially <q>) the appropriate tag(s) for
this?
[personally I tend to style the tag as italics or use a different font as
well]

Is this a rare moment of insight for me, or have I missed the point again as
usual? lol

Cheer

Chris

 

[m]

Greetings one and all.

The mark up for quoted speech or, in this case, feedback is bugging me. I'm
currently using a list (<ul>...) to mark up the comments, but I feel I could
be doing more (or less) to make it clear that these are feedback comments.

Is there a useful primer or reference doc? or perhaps a clue someone would
like to share?

Thanks.

I think that Zak and CJM are right about 'blockquote',
although I don't see why 'blockquote' and 'cite' can't
be embedded within a list of comments if you want.
Depending on how you nest things you might have to
change the 'display' style of some elements to get
a validation.

 

[William Tasso]

The mark up for quoted speech or, in this case, feedback ....

Is there a useful primer or reference doc?

Prompted by the responses, I found this splendid work by Jukka
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/html/bq.html and now, having read it top to
bottom, I am inclined to leave the list of feedback comments marked up as a
list using CSS to suggest italics &c for presentation.

 

[George Self]

Isn't that what <blockquote> is for?

Ciao

Zak
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I'm not sure what you are doing, but you may also want to consider using a
definition list. If you are presenting feedback to some sort of
questionnaire you could list the question in a <dt> item and then all of
the feedback in a <dd> item. That would give you an interesting indentation
for your page.

--George