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HTML HTML Basics Structuring Your Content Grouping Content with <main> and <div>

Posted by Hanna Han
Hanna Han
4,105 Points

cite attribute role in blockquote tag

It seems that a reference that cite attribute holds in blockquote tag doesn't show or function on the browser. what function has this attribute exactly? Is it for developer? maybe not for users?

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,275 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,275 Points

Here is what the w3c says,

User agents may allow users to follow such citation links, but they are primarily intended for private use (e.g: by server-side scripts collecting statistics about a site's edits), not for readers