CITE Element | CITE Object

Indicates a citation by rendering text in italic.

HTML Syntax

<CITE 
    CLASS=classname
    ID=value
    LANG=language
    LANGUAGE=JAVASCRIPT | JSCRIPT | VBSCRIPT  | VBS
    STYLE=css1-properties
    TITLE=text
    event = script
>

Remarks

A citation is a reference to a book, paper, or other published source material.

The CITE element is an inline element and requires a closing tag.

This element is available in HTML as of Microsoft® Internet Explorer 3.0, and in script as of Internet Explorer 4.0.

Members

CITE Members

Styles

CITE Styles

Example

This examples uses the CITE element to render a citation in italic.

<CITE>Book Title.</CITE>

See Also

ACRONYM, ADDRESS, DFN, EM, I

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