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HTML HTML Links Anchors

Alicja Fratczak
Alicja Fratczak
1,017 Points
Posted by Alicja Fratczak
Alicja Fratczak
1,017 Points

quotation marks and apostrophe symbols not displaying properly

Whenever I use quotation marks or apostrophe symbols in html code, it messes up my webpage. For example, when I type <p id=“some_text”>The anchor takes us here.</p> I get: ”some_text” displayed on my webpage, and 'page not found' error. This happens every time, even in the name of my page title. Am I doing something wrong?

2 Answers

Alicja Fratczak
Alicja Fratczak
1,017 Points
Alicja Fratczak
Alicja Fratczak
1,017 Points

I'm using text edit on mac, not pasting from another program.

Alicja Fratczak
Alicja Fratczak
1,017 Points
Alicja Fratczak
Alicja Fratczak
1,017 Points

Update: I figured out what the issue was. Turn's out the default Mac and TextEdit settings have 'smart quotes' turned on, which automatically slants/formats quotation marks when writing. I turned the feature off and everything works again :)

Rick Gessner
Rick Gessner
43 Points
Rick Gessner
Rick Gessner
43 Points

Likely that you're pasting the code in from a non-text editor like word. The character entities for quotes are shown below:

&ldquo;   PUT YOUR MESSAGE HERE   &rdquo;