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.
Inherits properties from its parent, HTMLElement.
HTMLQuoteElement.citeA string reflecting the cite HTML attribute, containing a URL for the source of the quotation.
No specific method; inherits methods from its parent, HTMLElement.
| Specification |
|---|
| HTML> # htmlquoteelement> |
| Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Opera | Safari | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | WebView Android | WebView on iOS | |
HTMLQuoteElement |
1 | 12 | 1 | ≤12.1 | 3 | 18 | 4 | ≤12.1 | 1 | 1.0 | 4.4 | 1 |
cite |
1 | 12 | 1 | ≤12.1 | 3 | 18 | 4 | ≤12.1 | 1 | 1.0 | 4.4 | 1 |
<blockquote> and <q>, but not <cite>.
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLQuoteElement