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Bug 15561 - Using content: open-quote to style <q> elements causes browsers to omit the quotes from copies of the text. It'd be nice to find a way to mark up quotes and also let them be copied.
Summary: Using content: open-quote to style <q> elements causes browsers to omit the q...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2012-01-15 02:00 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2012-07-18 18:42 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description contributor 2012-01-15 02:00:46 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/rendering.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#phrasing-content-1
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#phrasing-content-1

Comment:
Using content: open-quote to style <q> elements causes browsers to omit the
quotes from copies of the text. It'd be nice to find a way to mark up quotes
and also let them be copied.

Posted from: 70.36.140.65
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_7_2) AppleWebKit/535.16 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/18.0.1003.1 Safari/535.16
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2012-01-24 21:13:17 UTC 
That's a bug in the browsers. Copy-and-paste should copy what the user thinks it will copy, which includes generated content.