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Support for <q></q> quote element
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Author: dingoth

Description:
For more than once, in my wiki site, using WikiMedia, I've searched how to
render the <q></q> tags with their attribute. But I've never found. And the Help
does not mention the (in)existence of that tags. So I ask you to include it in a
further version, if it is possible. According to the (X)HTML specs, this tag is
an inline tag, and if it is included, I'd like it to be considered as well, with
its 'cite' attribute. Otherwise, I'd use the <blockquote></blockquote> tags
(used in WikiMedia thanks to the ": " mark).


Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement

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Reference
bz1774

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Event Timeline

bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Lowest.Nov 21 2014, 8:18 PM
bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-Parser.
bzimport set Reference to bz1774.
bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).

Reassigning to enhancement severity as this is a feature request.

michael wrote:

Unfortunately the q tag has mixed support in browsers, and at this time it's better
to just type quotation marks.

I'm going to go ahead and WONTFIX this. <q> is being dropped in XHTML 2.0, and browser support
is at best inconsistent for older versions of HTML.

sylvhem+wmbz wrote:

The <q> element are correctly supported by all recent browsers now. Moreover, it's part of HTML 4, XHTML 1 and future HTML 5 standard. Is it possible to include them in a further version?

(In reply to comment #4)

The <q> element are correctly supported by all recent browsers now. Moreover,
it's part of HTML 4, XHTML 1 and future HTML 5 standard.

In general, references (URLs, specs) are highly welcome for statements.

According to https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/HTML/Element/q :
Specification Status
HTML5 Candidate Recommendation
HTML 4.01 Spec Recommendation

Also see the <q> discussion in bug 671

  • Bug 45485 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***