The quotes property

The quotes property sets the type of quotation marks for embedded quotations.

Inherited: Yes

Example

Example 1

q:lang(en)
{
quotes: '"' '"' "'" "'"
}

the style above and the following HTML file:

<html lang="en">
<head>
</head>
<body>
<p><q>This is a <q>big</q> quote</q></p>
</body>
</html>

would produce this output:

"This is a 'big' quote"

Example 2

q:lang(no)
{
quotes: "«" "»" "'" "'"
}

the style above and the following HTML file:

<html lang="no">
<head>
</head>
<body>
<p><q>Vi synger <q>Mellom bakkar og berg</q> på 17.mai.</q>
</body>
</html>

would produce this output:

«Vi synger 'Mellom bakkar og berg' på 17.mai.»

Possible Values

Value	Description	NN	IE
none	The "open-quote" and "close-quote" values of the "content" property will not produce any quotation marks
string string string	Defines the quotation marks to use. The first two values specifies the first level of quotation embedding, the next two values specifies the next level of quote embedding, etc

Quotation Mark Characters

Result	Description	Entity Number
"	double quote	"
'	single quote	'
‹	single, left angle quote	‹
›	single, right angle quote	›
«	double, left angle quote	«
»	double, right angle quote	»
‘	left quote (single high-6)	‘
’	right quote (single high-9)	’
“	left quote (double high-6)	“
”	right quote (double high-9)	”
„	double quote (double low-9)	„

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