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Block Quotes are used to visually highlight direct quotations with an attribution from people or documents, such as third-party testimonials, municipal code excerpts, or data from Statistics Canada.

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Block Quotes Additional Criteria:

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Use a block quote to highlight a direct quotation with attribution.

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Criteria

  • Can be used to highlight a quotation from a person or from a reliable source of information. For example, a quotation from the mayor, Municipal Code excerpts or Statistics Canada data.

  • Must not include hyperlinks, bold, bullets, italics or headings.

  • Must not be used as a section heading.

  • Should Must not duplicate information found elsewhere on the page – not to be used as a pull quote (for example, a quote from a newspaper article).The quotations should be at the top.

  • The attribution should be at the bottommust appear below the quotation, begin with a dash and use small text formatfont. See example above.