How to use Quotation Marks in HTML CSS | Auto Quotation Marks | Quotes & Quotation Marks Styling

Let's talk about quote and quotation marks. There is actually a CSS property called quotes. There is a q tag that inserts quotation marks automatically for text inside q HTML tag. Then there is issue with the shape of quotation mark. Let's talk about all that. Quotation marks are used to highlight something or to represent exact language (either spoken or written) that has come from somebody else. There are many use cases and it's used in web pages. Ever saw testimonials displayed by a website? Those use quotation marks. In HTML we have blockquote tag, q tag and cite tag to quote something. q and cite HTML tags are inline elements. Essentially q, blockquote and cite elements are used when we are quoting someone.

So How to use Quotation Marks in HTML CSS?
How to apply Auto Quotation Marks to quotes?
We will also talk about Quotation Marks styling in CSS

One way to use quotation marks is to use the single or double opening and closing quote character in paragraph. But these are not impressive. Also quotation marks shape is not right.

Many developers use before and after CSS pseudo elements to add quotation marks to a paragraph. To use better quotation marks shape, use Georgia font family for quotation marks.

But now closing double quote is at the right bottom and not where the text ends. To solve that, we will use 'quotes' CSS property and 'open-quote' and 'close-quote' values for 'content' CSS property in Pseudo elements. Now quotation marks will be at position where it should be.

There is a q tag for quoting something. q tag is inline tag in HTML. We have used nested q tags in our example. Use q tag and browser will add quotation marks for you. q tags can be nested inside each other. It can be used to write quote inside another quote. Or to highlight something further inside a quote. We can modify q tag by using CSS quotes property. We can specify pairs of quotation marks for CSS quotes property. This is helpful for nested quotes.

Use q tag to quote something rather than using custom markup with CSS pseudo elements to display quotation marks.

Then we have blockquote HTML tag. It's good tag but it's block level element. To add quotation marks for blockquote, use 'quotes' CSS property and for before and after pseudo elements use 'open-quote' and 'close-quote' values for content CSS property.

And we have another HTML tag that is cite. cite tag is used to quote somebody. It does not need quotation marks but I will show you something interesting here. cite tag makes text italic and this dash line is also used along with it.

These quotation marks are characters and we also have their entity numbers to use as value of 'content' CSS property in pseudo CSS elements. You can get the symbols or code for quotation marks from following codepen.

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OMG, thank you! This is exactly what a needed.