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[Lesson 11] [Advanced Lesson 1]

12. Blockquotes
Blockquotes
In traditional writing, quotations of three or more sentences are set off from the main text as an idented block of text. HTML also includes this capability via the <blockquote>....</blockquote> tag. Know that you can apply any and all HTML you have learned so far inside of the <blockquote> tags.
Blockquotes
HTML Result 
This text
shouldn't be.
<blockquote>This large
piece of text
is going to be
indented away from
where a border
would normally be.
</blockquote>
And this text
shouldn't be.
 This text shouldn't be.
This large piece of text is going to be indented away from where a border would normally be.
And this text shouldn't be.
For more indentation, you can add more <blockquote> tags, it's a very simple implementation, 3 <blockquote> tags one after the other, would put a paragraph of text close to the center of a page.
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