I have used this in my HTML:
<q> Hai How r u </q>
Which shows the text in quotes, like ‘Hai How r u’, for example.
This is working fine in FF but not in IE 6.0.
Please let me know why this happens, and any solutions you might know of.
I don’t want to use the quote (‘) character in my HTML or a separate css file for this.
A List Apart had a whole article devoted to the
<q>tag:Long Live The Q Tag
The summary is to add CSS to remove the quotes from Firefox and other browsers and then manually encode them in yourself. It’s a bit of a pain, but at least it levels the playing field and you know that your content will look the same cross-browser.
If you really don’t want to have to type the quotes in yourself, then take a look at these articles: