quotes

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

Initial value	depends on user agent
Applies to	all elements
Inherited	yes
Media	visual
Computed value	as specified
Animation type	discrete
Canonical order	the unique non-ambiguous order defined by the formal grammar

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

Specification	Status	Comment
CSS Level 2 (Revision 1) The definition of 'quotes' in that specification.	Recommendation	Initial definition

Browser compatibility

See also

• content