On Thursday 07 August 2003 12:15, Brion Vibber wrote:
<blockquote> would work, but you're not _supposed_ to use it for indentation of things that aren't quotes.
The 4.01 standard says 'The usage of BLOCKQUOTE to indent text is deprecated in favor of style sheets.'
"Deprecated" doesn't mean "you can't do that", it's closer to "avoid doing that if possible, and if you go to a later standard, be ready to not be able to do it". But the doctype line at the top of Wikipedia's pages doesn't say "the latest standard", it says "HTML 4.01 Transitional", and HTML 4.01 transitional says "you can do it if you really want to". And since we appear to be stuck on supporting browsers that can't keep up with 5-7 year old standards, it would appear we "really want to".