<cite>

概述

HTML引用（ Citation）标签 (<cite>) 表示一个作品的引用。它必须包含引用作品的符合简写格式的标题或者URL。It must include the title of a work or a URL reference, which may be in an abbreviated form according to the conventions used for the addition of citation metadata.

Usage Notes:

  • A creative work may include a book, a paper, an essay, a poem, a score, a song, a script, a film, a TV show, a game, a sculpture, a painting, a theater production, a play, an opera, a musical, an exhibition, a legal case report, a computer program, a web site, a web page, a blog post or comment, a forum post or comment, a tweet, a written or oral statement, etc.
  • The W3C spec states that a reference to a creative work may include the author's name, while WHATWG has declared that it may not include a person's name under any circumstances.
  • Use the cite attribute on a <blockquote> or <q> element to reference an online resource for a source.
Content categories Flow content, phrasing content, palpable content.
Permitted content Phrasing content.
Tag omission 不允许，开始标签和结束标签都不能省略。
Permitted parent elements Any element that accepts phrasing content.
DOM interface HTMLElement Up to Gecko 1.9.2 (Firefox 4) inclusive, Firefox implements the HTMLSpanElement interface for this element.

Attributes

This element only includes the global attributes.

Example

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

The HTML above outputs:

More information can be found in [ISO-0000].

Notes

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

Specifications

Specification Status Comment
WHATWG HTML Living Standard
<cite>		 Living Standard  
HTML5
<cite>		 Recommendation  
HTML 4.01 Specification
<cite>		 Recommendation  

Browser compatibility

Feature Chrome Firefox (Gecko) Internet Explorer Opera Safari
Basic support (Yes) 1.0 (1.7 or earlier) (Yes) (Yes) (Yes)
Feature Android Firefox Mobile (Gecko) IE Mobile Opera Mobile Safari Mobile
Basic support (Yes) 1.0 (1.0) (Yes) (Yes) (Yes)

See also

  • The element <blockquote> for long quotations.
  • The element <q> for inline quotations.

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