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Transcription: The example page that we've been working on has a quotation from the mayor of Wardscott on it. The proper HTML element for a quotation is the block quote element. Since the default appearance of a block quote is indented, it quickly became abused by web designers as a way to easily indent a block of text. Using a semantic element for presentational purposes in this way violates the concept of semantic markup. If we reserve the use of block quotes for text that is truly a quotation, web devices can consider that information to their users. If you're following along with the exercise files, open ...