Web-centric Computing

Some Example Code

Text Buttons made with CSS

This is the ‘other’ section

  <h4>
    This is the &lsquo;<span class="button">other</span>&rsquo; section
  </h4>
  

Why did I use &lsquo; and &rsquo;?

Compare these characters with different browsers.

PlainEntity Reference
typeget by name by number
Character Name
left single quote ` ` &lsquo; ‘ &#8216; ‘
right single quote ' ' &rsquo; ’ &#8217; ’
left double quote

&ldquo; “ &#8220; “
right double quote

&rdquo; ” &#8221; ”
plain double quote " " &quot; " &#34; "

For more entities see the tables in the HTML 4.0 specification.

This example also appears in the quotemarks.html file in the XHTML section of the examples.

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http://www.cs.dal.ca/~jamie/course/CS/4173/examples/CSS/buttons/5.html
Version:
06 June 2002
CS 4173 Prof.:
J. Blustein <jamie@cs.dal.ca>

This document is written in valid XHTML 1.0 & This document makes use of cascading style sheets.