- From: T. Kuro Kurosaka <kuro@bhlab.com>
- Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 08:26:30 +0900
- To: www-international@w3.org
> Why use the language attribute?
> http://www.w3.org/International/tutorials/new-language-decl/qa-lang-why
> The following example shows how you can apply different quotation marks for
quotations in German text.
> These quotation marks will be used to surround the content of a q element
> with the attribute lang="de".
>
> :lang(en) > * { quotes: '"' '"' "'" "'"; }
> :lang(en) > * { quotes: '„' '“' '‚' '‘'; }
> q:before { content: open-quote; }
> q:after { content: close-quote; }
Perhaps this sample illustrates how to change quotation marks
depending on the language, and the the second line meant to
be :lang(de) rather?
I didn't get what the last two lines mean but that's probably because
I don't have enough knowledge about CSS that this article requires.
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KUROSAKA ("Kuro") Teruhiko, Berkeley, California, USA
Received on Sunday, 21 August 2011 23:27:07 UTC