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Reputation: 5831

Adding double quotes to a paragraph with CSS

Lets say I have this paragraph:

<p class="myclass">This is my paragraph</p>

What is the CSS code to add double quotes to this paragraph? (So it will render "This is my paragraph")

.myclass {}

Upvotes: 53

Views: 80058

Answers (4)

user663031
user663031

Reputation:

Actually, the accepted answer is wrong, or at least suboptimal. It should be:

q { quotes: '\201c' '\201d'; }
q:before { content: open-quote; }
q:after  { content: close-quote; }

The \201c here is Unicode for a left curly double quote. There's no reason you could not write the double quotes directly in the rule for q:

q { quotes: '“' '”'}

open-quote and close-quote are special values for the content property, which refer to the strings given as values for the quotes property.

Now you can just say:

<p><q>This is my paragraph</q></p>

Or some variant thereof; you could of course add the before and after rules directly on p if you would prefer:

body { quotes: '\201c' '\201d'; }
p:before { content: open-quote; }
p:after  { content: close-quote; }

This permits you to factor out the specific characters used for quotes using the quotes property, without changing all the before and after rules. For instance, you can then do things such as 

:lang(de) { quotes: "»" "«"; }

to get German-style quotes, if the lang attribute has been set to de on any ancestor.

The quotes property actually allows you to specify additional sets of quotes, for use with nested quotes. See the docs for more details.

body { quotes: '\201c' '\201d'; }
q:before { content: open-quote; }
q:after  { content: close-quote; }

:lang(de) { quotes: "»" "«"; }
<p>Quoth the raven, <q>Never more.</q></p>

<p lang="de">Sprach der Rabe: <q>Nie du Tor.</q></p>

References:

Upvotes: 176

rockingtree
rockingtree

Reputation: 31

Here is what I did to make the quotations on my blockquote work.

This is for the first quotation mark:

blockquote:before{content: open-quote;}

and this is for the second quotation mark:

blockquote:after{content: close-quote;)

However, this only works in CSS3.

Upvotes: 3

Pedryk
Pedryk

Reputation: 1663

.myclass:before
{
content: '\201C';
}

.myclass:after
{
content: '\201D';
}

Upvotes: 89

Rob W
Rob W

Reputation: 348972

Use pseudo-elements:

p.myclass:before, p.myclass:after {
    content: '"';
}

Fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/2bE8j/1/

Upvotes: 48

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