<cite>
The title of a work: a book, film, article or song.
Syntax
<cite>Title of a work</cite>Examples
A book title in text:
<p>My favourite novel is <cite>The Hobbit</cite>.</p>
<blockquote>All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.</blockquote>
<p>— from <cite>The Fellowship of the Ring</cite></p>Notes
By the HTML rules <cite> is the title of a work, not a person's name. The text is shown in italics by default.
See also
- <blockquote> — A long quotation as a separate block.
- <q> — A short inline quote; the browser adds the quotation marks itself.
In the tutorial
- Text formatting — Inline tags for text — strong and em, mark, del and ins, sub and sup, code, kbd and pre, abbr and q.