Ive done a bit of research on blockquote but i cant seem to find a "from" attribute for this tag, which is a bit odd as surely every quote needs a source.

I know that there is 'cite', but as far as i can see this is only for linking the quote to another webpage, which i dont want to do, i just want to attribute the quote to a person.

For example, what would be to correct way to code this:

"Bez's websites are bloody marvellous"
-Mr Smith

I have this:

<blockquote>
<p>"Bez's websites are bloody marvellous"</p>
</blockquote>
<div class="quoteFrom">-Mr Smith</div>

With an arbitrary div tag for the 'From', which is hardly helpful semantics. If this is the only way to do it, would i be better sticking the 'fromQuote' in the 'blockquote':

<blockquote>
<p>Bez's websites are bloody marvellous</p>
<div class="quoteFrom">-Mr Smith</div>
</blockquote>

Thanks for any feedback

Hya,
I found this, seems to do what you want. maybe take a peep till someone here can help you further.

http://www.1976design.com/blog/archi...11/10/updates/

It did take me to a guys pictures so I think thats what you mean buy person...unsure!

I want to simply list the name of the person who made to the quote, no href at all. Im just wondering the correct CSS/ XHTML structure for this, if there is a way to implicitly link to quote with who it was made by.

For example, the <table> tag can contain a <caption> tag, which is used to give the table a title. That title is then implicitly linked to the table and is therefore semantically superior to writing, say, <h2> followed by <table> (where there would be no implicit link). I would have thought something similar would exist with <blockquote>, so we can, say, put <author> inside <blockquote> to implicitly link the quote with the author. In my code above there is no link between the the quote and the source (apart from what can be implied by the viewer of the page).

The link you posted seems to just use javascript to append the contents of the 'title' field to the end of the quote, which semantically is probably worse than what im doing right now.