Quoting in HTML

Using the <q> Tag

1. Bare: What's this subermaket? Jane asked.
2. CSSed bare: What's this subermaket? Jane asked.
3. CSSed w/ quotes: What's this subermaket? Jane asked.
4. Entities: “‘What's this “subermaket”?’ Jane asked.”
5. ASCII: "'What's this "subermaket"?' Jane asked."

Browser Support

• Gecko/20020910-20021014 displays treats the <q> tag as a straight double quote in 1/2 and as a curly double quotes in 3. It mixes <q> quotes with author-supplied quotes in 4/5. (screenshot)
• IE 6.0 ignores the quote tag. (screenshot)
• links 0.92 ignores the quote tag. (screenshot)
• Opera 6 treats the <q> tag as a straight double quote in 1/2 and gets very confused in 3. It mixes <q> quotes with author-supplied quotes in 4/5. (screenshot)
• lynx 2.8.5dev.8 (28 May 2002) (development version) displays 1/2/3 with the proper quotes. It mixes <q> quotes with author-supplied quotes in 4/5. (screenshot)
• If you have a different browser, let me know how it fares.

Not Using the <q> Tag

1. Entities: “‘What's this “subermaket”?’ Jane asked.”
2. ASCII: "'What's this "subermaket"?' Jane asked."