Blockquote tags

[rjtiess at juno.com]

Lately I've been using one of the older HTML
tags, Blockquote, to increase the legibility of
webpages with a lot of text on them.  It's
very easy to implement, and the end result is
a nice left and right margin on your page.  I
believe this tag also works with Lynx.  The
added whitespace also gives the document
a sense of readability, as opposed to text
running flush margin to margin.

To insert this tag in your HTML, place a
< blockquote > (minus the spaces between
the > and < characters--printed this way for
HTML-enabled mail clients) and a
< / blockquote > (again, minus the spaces)
after the opening BODY and before the
closing BODY statement in your code.
If your text contains tables, rulers, and
graphics, you might restrain blockquote
to strictly textual areas, as everything
within the blockquote statement gets
automatically indented.

This tag can also be embedded in other
blockquote statements for additional
indentations if needed.  I know DHTML,
style sheets, and so forth eventually make
this practice seem primitive, but it does work
and it appears to be friendly to most
browsers.  Blockquote is also supported in
the latest W3C HTML 4.0 recommendation.

Another thing that can be done, with
respect to tables, is to use the cellpadding=x
statement, which will put x pixels of space
between the border (if border>0> and the
text inside the table element.  The cellpadding=
and border= statements go in the < table >
tag.

Hope someone out there finds this helpful.
Take care.

Robert J. Tiess
Middletown Thrall Library
http://www.thrall.org
















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