Quotations that are more than about thirty words long are usually indented from the text margin and set in smaller type. They are called block quotations and, because they are differentiated from the text in this way, they do not need quotation marks.

To indent online copy add the following html code: <blockquote>text here</blockquote>. The first, or opening blockquote tag should follow directly on from the preceding text with no space, as the tag creates a paragraph break. The closing tag, however, should be followed by a manual paragraph break (hit ‘enter’ twice).

If you need to indent more than one paragraph, each paragraph must be enclosed in the <blockquote> </blockquote> tags.