Web Design in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition

Name

q

Synopsis

    <q>...</q>

Attributes

Core (id, class, style, title), Internationalization, Events

cite=" url "

The HTML Recommendation suggests that user agents should automatically insert quotation marks before and after q elements, therefore, authors are advised to omit them in the source. As of this writing, Internet Explorer 5 for Macintosh, Netscape 6, and Opera do insert generic double quotation marks, but Internet Explorer 6 for Windows does not.

    As mother always said,<q>a guest is no one to criticize.</q>

Ideally, when used with the lang (language) attribute, the browser may insert language-specific quotation marks. Contextual quotation marks will be better handled with CSS-based generated text, as described in Chapter 23, once browser support improves.

The cite attribute is intended to provide a link to additional information about the source of the quote, but it is not well supported as of this writing. Netscape 6.1 makes the cite link available in a contextual menu accessed by right-clicking the quotation.