Blocks of Text

9/30/99

HTML provides three special types of text blocks, <ADDRESS>...</ADDRESS>, <PRE>...</PRE>, and <BLOCKQUOTE>...</BLOCKQUOTE>. Each of these provides something special. <ADDRESS> is used to identify authorship information and is generally set in italics with no space above or below. Often <ADDRESS> tags are recorded by automated search engine robots. The <PRE> tag causes the text to be displayed exactly as they are typed in, honoring multiple spaces and line breaks. The <BLOCKQUOTE> tag is used for major portions of quoted material within a body of text and offsets the enclosed materials from the margin (see below).

This is an example of an address inserted in between two paragraphs.

This is an example
of preformatted text.
Note that the carriage
returns and 
s  p  a  c  e  s
remain.

Here          is
another       example
of            preformatted
text.

This is an example of a blockquote following a paragraph.

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