<p>Is there any benefit in using a <code>&lt;blockquote&gt;</code> element over a <code>&lt;div&gt;</code>? I was looking at a website's markup to learn CSS and I couldn't figure out why the <code>&lt;blockquote&gt;</code> was being used.</p>

<p>EDIT: Yeah sorry I didn't clarify, it was used to hold the <code>&lt;div&gt;</code> tag with username as 'text' and an <code>input</code> tag. There was clearly no quote.</p>

Semantically, a
```
blockquote
```
tag makes sense when you're quoting something.  Sure, a stylized div can do the same thing, but why not use the right tag for the job?
Additionally, the blockquote tag allows you to include a citation with the
```
cite
```
attribute.