- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 08:12:59 -0700
- To: Thomas Broyer <t.broyer@gmail.com>
- CC: "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
Thomas Broyer wrote: > See also: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/selector.html#lang which has an > example of how a CSS stylesheet would look like for German and French > (it is implied that q::before and q::after have their 'content' > property set to open-quote and close-quote respectively) But getting back to Olivier's point, if you have: <span lang="x"><q lang="y">stuff</q</span> the :before and :after of the <q> have lang="y" (since they are kids of the <q>; just put a border on the <q> to see). Which makes it hard to use the CSS approach to give the quote the punctuation of the embedding language... -Boris
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