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The <q> element for short quotes adds quotation marks to the text:
<p><q>This is a quote.</q></p>
Can you tell me how this is advantageous to simply using quote characters (i.e. ” “) directly within a paragraph?
<p>"This is a quote."</p>
One could style it specially, but it seems like one could use a <span> element for that too, so what’s the main advantage(s) of the <q> element?
The main advantage of using the
qelement is the potential semantic meaning it adds to the content, it describes the content as being a quote. It also allows browsers with the locale information to style the quotation marks appropriately for that region,"for most English-speaking regions,«and»for Spain and France, and so on, appropriate for the user’s language settings. In theory, at least.