cite

Table of Contents

  1. Summary
  2. Usage context
  3. Attributes
  4. DOM interface
  5. Example
  6. Notes
  7. See also

Summary

The HTML Citation Element (<cite>) contains the title of a work, such as a book, song, movie, TV show, sculpture, etc.

Usage Notes:

  • In HTML5 , use of this element to mark a person's name is no longer considered semantically appropriate.
  • Use the cite attribute on a <blockquote> or <q> element to reference an online resource for a source.

Usage context

Permitted content Phrasing content.
Tag omission None, must have both a start tag and an end tag.
Permitted parent elements Any element that accepts phrasing content.
Normative document HTML5, section 4.6.5; HTML 4.01, section 9.2.1

Attributes

This element has no other attributes than the global attributes, common to all elements.

DOM interface

This element implements the HTMLElement interface.

Implementation note: up to Gecko 1.9.2 inclusive, Firefox implements the HTMLSpanElement interface for this element.

Example

More information can be found in <cite>[ISO-0000]</cite>

The HTML above outputs:

More information can be found in <cite>[ISO-0000]</cite>

Notes

To prevent the italic style from being used for the <cite> element use the CSS font-style property.

See also

HTML Elements
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