Sent by Stephen Rider on 13 January 2005 21:09
On Jan 13, 2005, at 1:53 PM, Lukasz Grabun wrote:
> The XHTML <q> element is properly interpreted by FF and Opera
> browsers; IE seems not to add extra quote marks before and after the
> quoted text. Who cares. The problem is that I also use SmartyPants to
> beautify texts I publish. Apparently, quotes that FF and Opera so
> neatly surround quoted texts with, are not parsed by SmartyPants. Is
> there a way to - with CSS - set characters to be used instead of
> standard "?
It appears this should work
q:before {content: open-quote;}
q:after {content: close-quote;}
I haven't tested it -- not sure of that would "double up" the quotes in
some browsers or what. I would think not, however, as this is
effectively what FF and NS are already applying to the Q tag.
See this link for more info:
<http://www.w3schools.com/css/pr_gen_content.asp>
Steve
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