Quotes

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What is it?: This property determines the type of quotation marks that will be used in a document. One or more quotation mark pairs are given, with the basic quotation characters being the left-most pair. Each subsequent pair represents the quotation characters used at progressively deeper element nesting contexts.

Values of the 'content' property are used to specify where the open/close quotation marks should or should not occur - the "open-quote", "close-quote", "no-open-quote", and "no-close-quote" values. "Open-quote" refers to the left (first) of a given pair of specified quotes, while "close-quote" refers to the second (right) quote character in the pair. Quotes can be skipped at a particular location by using the "close-quote" and "no-open-quote" value. In the event that the quote character nesting depth is not covered in the 'quotes' property specification, the last valid quotation pair set should be used.

Quotation characters

Character Reference	Unicode	Description
"	0022	ASCII double quote
'	0027	ASCII single quote
‹	2039	Single, left angle quote
›	203A	Single, right angle quote
«	00AB	Double, left angle quote
»	00BB	Double, right angle quote
‘	2018	Left quote (Single high-6)
’	2019	Right quote (Single high-9)
“	201C	Left quote (Double high-6)
”	201D	Right quote (Double high-9)
„	201E	Double quote (Double low-9)

Allowed Values
inherit
CSS2: Type: Explicit; Description:
Explicitly sets the value of this property to that of the parent.
none
CSS2: Type: Explicit; Description:
The 'open-quote' and 'close-quote' values of the 'content' property produce no quotations marks.
([string] [string])
CSS2: Type: Explicit; Syntax: ([string] [string])+; Description:
Values for the 'open-quote' and 'close-quote' values of the 'content' property are taken from this list of quote mark pairs. The first or possibly only) pair on the left represents the outermost level of quotation embedding, the pair to the right (if any) is the first level of quote embedding, etc.

Example: Ext/Doc:
blockquote[lang-=fr] { quotes: "\201C" "\201D" }
blockquote[lang-=en] { quotes: "\00AB" "\00BB" }
blockquote:before { content: open-quote }
blockquote:after { content: close-quote }
[Applies correct quotes based on language used]

Notes

CSS2 states that contents of a quotation that are in a different language than the surrounding content should use quotes appropriate to the surrounding content, NOT those from the quoted content.

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