Question about CSS and IE - dm-l

11 Apr 2005


      Hi all,
I have a question about Internet Explorer. We are proofing the journal 
right now, and have discovered that IE doesn't seem to display quotation 
marks for the html:q tag. To indicate italics, we follow the W3C 
recommendation and use <q> rather than marks to rend quotations, article 
titles, and the like. In our CSS, we indicate how those marks are 
supposed to appear (e.g. when nested). In this specific case, we have
--In HTML--
<q>quoted text</q>
--In CSS--
q {
       quotes: &#x201C; &#x201D;
}
q q {
       quotes:  &#x2018; &#x2019;
}
q q q {
   quotes: &#x201C; &#x201D;
}
q:lang(FRA), q:lang(ITA) {
       quotes:&#x00AB; &#x00BB;;
}
(we've also tried:
q {
       quotes: '"' '"'
}
q q {
       quotes:  "'" "'"
}
q q q {
   quotes: '"' '"';
}
q:lang(FRA), q:lang(ITA) {
       quotes:&#x00AB; &#x00BB;;
}
)
Weirdly, the Italian and French quotes work fine in all browsers; the 
other q styles work in Opera and Firefox.
Any suggestions?
-dan
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