{"id":2049,"date":"2016-10-16T13:50:15","date_gmt":"2016-10-16T13:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cssreset.com\/?p=2049"},"modified":"2016-10-16T13:50:15","modified_gmt":"2016-10-16T13:50:15","slug":"control-your-quotes-with-css3s-quotes-property","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cssdeck.com\/blog\/control-your-quotes-with-css3s-quotes-property\/","title":{"rendered":"Control Your Quotes With CSS3&#8217;s Quotes Property"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re looking for a way to style your quotes using CSS, here&#8217;s a good one for you. Take advantage of this if you have a lot of quote elements that need to be uniform throughout your entire document or project.<\/p>\n<p>To use CSS to style your quotes, make sure that your quote are within &lt;q&gt; tags in your HTML, like this:<\/p>\n<div id=\"ig-sh-1\" class=\"syntax_hilite\">\r\n\r\n\t\t<div class=\"toolbar\">\r\n\r\n\t\t<div class=\"view-different-container\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#\" class=\"view-different\">&lt; View <span>plain text<\/span> &gt;<\/a>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\r\n\t\t<div class=\"language-name\">HTML<\/div>\r\n\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t<br clear=\"both\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\t\r\n\t<div class=\"code\">\r\n\t\t<ol class=\"html4strict\" style=\"font-family:monospace\"><li style=\"font-weight: normal;vertical-align:top\"><div style=\"font: normal normal 1em\/1.2em monospace;margin:0;padding:0;background:none;vertical-align:top\"><span style=\"color: #ddbb00\">&amp;lt;<\/span>q<span style=\"color: #ddbb00\">&amp;gt;<\/span>Hey, it's a quote.<span style=\"color: #ddbb00\">&amp;lt;<\/span>\/q<span style=\"color: #ddbb00\">&amp;gt;<\/span><\/div><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: normal;vertical-align:top\"><div style=\"font: normal normal 1em\/1.2em monospace;margin:0;padding:0;background:none;vertical-align:top\"><span style=\"color: #ddbb00\">&amp;lt;<\/span>q<span style=\"color: #ddbb00\">&amp;gt;<\/span>Hey, let's make a <span style=\"color: #ddbb00\">&amp;lt;<\/span>q<span style=\"color: #ddbb00\">&amp;gt;<\/span>quote<span style=\"color: #ddbb00\">&amp;lt;<\/span>\/q<span style=\"color: #ddbb00\">&amp;gt;<\/span> inside a quote.<span style=\"color: #ddbb00\">&amp;lt;<\/span>\/q<span style=\"color: #ddbb00\">&amp;gt;<\/span><\/div><\/li>\n<\/ol>\t<\/div>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s say you want the outer quotes to be double brackets, and the inner quotes (to be applied to the quote within a quote) to be single brackets. Here&#8217;s how you&#8217;d have to define that in your CSS:<\/p>\n<div id=\"ig-sh-2\" class=\"syntax_hilite\">\r\n\r\n\t\t<div class=\"toolbar\">\r\n\r\n\t\t<div class=\"view-different-container\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#\" class=\"view-different\">&lt; View <span>plain text<\/span> &gt;<\/a>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\r\n\t\t<div class=\"language-name\">css<\/div>\r\n\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t<br clear=\"both\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\t\r\n\t<div class=\"code\">\r\n\t\t<ol class=\"css\" style=\"font-family:monospace\"><li style=\"font-weight: normal;vertical-align:top\"><div style=\"font: normal normal 1em\/1.2em monospace;margin:0;padding:0;background:none;vertical-align:top\">q<span style=\"color: #00AA00\">&#123;<\/span><\/div><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: normal;vertical-align:top\"><div style=\"font: normal normal 1em\/1.2em monospace;margin:0;padding:0;background:none;vertical-align:top\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-weight: bold\">quotes<\/span><span style=\"color: #00AA00\">:<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000\">&quot;\u00ab&quot;<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">&quot;\u00bb&quot;<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">&quot;\u2039&quot;<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">&quot;\u203a&quot;<\/span><span style=\"color: #00AA00\">;<\/span><\/div><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: normal;vertical-align:top\"><div style=\"font: normal normal 1em\/1.2em monospace;margin:0;padding:0;background:none;vertical-align:top\"><span style=\"color: #00AA00\">&#125;<\/span><\/div><\/li>\n<\/ol>\t<\/div>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n\n<p>The quotes property takes four values, the first two are for the outer quotes, and the second two are for the inner quotes. Your final results should look like this:<\/p>\n<p>\u00abHey, it&#8217;s a quote.\u00bb<br \/>\n\u00abHey, let&#8217;s make a\u00a0\u2039quote\u203a inside a quote.\u00bb<\/p>\n<p>This property is supported on most major browsers and is great for quickly making your quote styling consistent across the board.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-socializer wpsr-share-icons \" data-lg-action=\"show\" data-sm-action=\"show\" data-sm-width=\"768\" ><h3>Share and Enjoy !<\/h3><div class=\"wpsr-si-inner\"><div class=\"wpsr-counter wpsrc-sz-32px\" style=\"color:#000\"><span class=\"scount\"><span data-wpsrs=\"\" data-wpsrs-svcs=\"facebook,twitter,linkedin,pinterest,print,pdf\">0<\/span><\/span><small class=\"stext\">Shares<\/small><\/div><div class=\"socializer sr-popup sr-32px sr-circle sr-opacity sr-pad sr-count-1 sr-count-1\"><span class=\"sr-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share this on Facebook\"  style=\"color: #ffffff\" ><i class=\"fab fa-facebook-f\"><\/i><span class=\"ctext\"><span data-wpsrs=\"\" data-wpsrs-svcs=\"facebook\">0<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span>\n<span class=\"sr-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=%20-%20%20\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Tweet this !\"  style=\"color: #ffffff\" ><i class=\"fab fa-twitter\"><\/i><\/a><\/span>\n<span class=\"sr-linkedin\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/sharing\/share-offsite\/?url=\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Add this to LinkedIn\"  style=\"color: #ffffff\" ><i class=\"fab fa-linkedin-in\"><\/i><\/a><\/span>\n<span class=\"sr-pinterest\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/?url=&amp;media=&amp;description=\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Submit this to Pinterest\"  style=\"color: #ffffff\" data-pin-custom=\"true\"><i class=\"fab fa-pinterest\"><\/i><span class=\"ctext\"><span data-wpsrs=\"\" data-wpsrs-svcs=\"pinterest\">0<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span>\n<span class=\"sr-print\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.printfriendly.com\/print?url=\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Print this article \"  style=\"color: #ffffff\" ><i class=\"fa fa-print\"><\/i><\/a><\/span>\n<span class=\"sr-pdf\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.printfriendly.com\/print?url=\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Convert to PDF\"  style=\"color: #ffffff\" ><i class=\"fa fa-file-pdf\"><\/i><\/a><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re looking for a way to style your quotes using CSS, here&#8217;s a good one for you. 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