HTMLQuoteElement

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.

The HTMLQuoteElement interface provides special properties and methods (beyond the regular HTMLElement interface it also has available to it by inheritance) for manipulating quoting elements, like <blockquote> and <q>, but not the <cite> element.

EventTarget Node Element HTMLElement HTMLQuoteElement

Instance properties

Inherits properties from its parent, HTMLElement.

HTMLQuoteElement.cite

A string reflecting the cite HTML attribute, containing a URL for the source of the quotation.

Instance methods

No specific method; inherits methods from its parent, HTMLElement.

Specifications

Browser compatibility

Desktop Mobile
Chrome Edge Firefox Opera Safari Chrome Android Firefox for Android Opera Android Safari on IOS Samsung Internet WebView Android
HTMLQuoteElement 1 12 1 ≤12.1 3 18 4 ≤12.1 1 1.0 ≤37
cite 1 12 1 ≤12.1 3 18 4 ≤12.1 1 1.0 ≤37

See also

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLQuoteElement