# Property Description

The quotes property sets the type of quote characters to use for embedded quotations.

# Property Values

Value | Description
--- | ---
none | Specifies that the "open-quote" and "close-quote" values of the "content" property will not produce any quotation marks
string string string string | Specifies which quotation marks to use. The first two values specifies the first level of quotation embedding, the next two values specifies the next level of quote embedding, etc
inherit1 | Specifies that the value of the property should be inherited from the parent element

# Quotation Mark Characters

Result | Description | Entity Number
--- | --- | ---
" | double quote | &#34;
' | single quote | &#39;
‹ | single, left angle quote | &#8249;
› | single, right angle quote | &#8250;
« | double, left angle quote | &#171;
» | double, right angle quote | &#187;
' | left quote (single high-6) | &#8216;
' | right quote (single high-9) | &#8217;
" | left quote (double high-6) | &#8220;
" | right quote (double high-9) | &#8221;
" | double quote (double low-9) | &#8222;

# Examples

This example shows how to specify the quotation marks for embedded quotations.

    q:lang(en) {
      quotes:"«" "»" "'" "'";
    }

# Browser Support

Firefox | IE | Chrome | Opera | Safari

1 - 'inherit' not supported by IE

# Miscellaneous Information

Inherited: | Yes
Defined In: | CSS2