Quotation Marks?

Same question Matt, and do look forward to the answer.....

The boards here, and our bio and descriptions, accept HTML code. Quotation marks are used in code to define calls to specific files, and thus don't appear correctly when typed straight in.

This makes is very difficult to explain how to fix the problem, because in trying to show you the code, the board will convert my instructions to the HTML display. I'll give it a shot:

These are "straight" keyboard quotes (I put them in using the regular old double quote key on the keyboard)

These are "HTML" quotes (I put them in by typing an ampersand followed by the word quot with no spaces where the marks should appear in my phrase)


So, go into your descriptions and replace your straight quotation marks with this: (remove all underscores) _&_quot_ put it, with no spaces afterwards, where you put your opening and closing double quotes.

I tried it on my own profile bio and it displays quotation marks just fine. :)

Thank you Cynthia, that solved the problem.

Glad I could help!

Just to make it even more fun, there are many other special characters that can be entered using the 'ampersand' method. Below are some favorites, hit the link for a full chart. Note: it's safest if you end them with a semicolon.

http://dev.w3.org/html5/html-author/charref

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Very interesting. And yet on my stock photo site I have the opposite problem. I type in quotes and it shows &_Quot "

@Bradford - Try using \" (backslash quote). Just don't save it more than once without retyping it or you may cause the backslash to show.

Great chart, Dave. Thanks!

‖ Carolyn Marshall
www.carolynmarshallphotography.com