quotes

quotes

The quotes CSS property indicates how user agents should render quotation marks.

Syntax

/* Keyword value */
quotes: none;

/* <string> values */
quotes: "«" "»";           /* Set open-quote and close-quote to the French quotation marks */
quotes: "«" "»" "‹" "›";   /* Set two levels of quotation marks */

/* Global values */
quotes: inherit;
quotes: initial;
quotes: unset;

Values

none

The open-quote and close-quote values of the content property produce no quotation marks.

[<string> <string>]+

One or more pairs of <string> values for open-quote and close-quote. The first pair represents the outer level of quotation, the second pair is for the first nested level, next pair for third level and so on.

Formal syntax

[ <string> <string> ]+ | none

Examples

q { quotes: '"' '"' "'" "'" }
q:before { content: open-quote }
q:after  { content: close-quote }

Notes

Starting in Firefox 3.5, the initial value of the quotes property can be read using -moz-initial This wasn't possible in earlier versions of Firefox.

Specifications

Browser compatibility

See also

• content