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Quoting in HTML: Quotations, Citations, and Blockquotes

It’s all too common to see the incorrect HTML used for quotes in markup. In this article, let’s dig into all this, looking at different situations and different HTML tags to handle those situations.

There are three major HTML elements …

John Rhea on Dec 10, 2019

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Has the Internet Killed Curly Quotes?

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Glenn Fleishman:

At an increasing number of publications, [curly quotes have] been ironed straight. This may stem from a lack of awareness on the part of website designers or from the difficulty in a content-management system (CMS) getting the curl

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Shared by Chris Coyier on Dec 31, 2016

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The quotes property in CSS allows you to specify which types of quotes are used when quotes are added via the content: open-quote; or content: close-quote; rules. Here’s how to use it:

q {
  quotes: "“" "”" "‘" "’";
}

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Sara Cope on Sep 5, 2011 (Updated on Feb 29, 2020)