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This template should not be used in citation templates such as Citation Style 1 and Citation Style 2, because it includes markup that will pollute the COinS metadata they produce; see Misplaced Pages:COinS.

Usage

The {{" ' "}} (or {{Double+single+double}} in long form) template is for use a) at the beginning of a "double-quoted" quotation that begins a 'single-quoted' quotation that in turn begins an enclosing "double-quoted" quotation, or b) at the end of a "double-quoted" quotation that ends a 'single-quoted' quotation that in turn ends an enclosing "double-quoted" quotation. Its purpose is to slightly space the single and double quotation marks apart for legibility, without actually inserting a space character. It does this with CSS, and does so because the insertion of extraneous space characters of any kind would be a violation of the semantic integrity of the web content of the article or other page in which it appeared.

Example (with highlighting added for clarity)

• Using the template:

Kwan was quoted as saying, "She disputed his statement that 'Voltaire never said "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.{{" ' "}}

Kwan was quoted as saying, "She disputed his statement that 'Voltaire never said "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."'"

• For comparison, here is the completely unspaced version:

Kwan was quoted as saying, "She disputed his statement that 'Voltaire never said "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."'"

Kwan was quoted as saying, "She disputed his statement that 'Voltaire never said "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."'"

• And here is the version with a semantically incorrect non-breaking space character:

Kwan was quoted as saying, "She disputed his statement that 'Voltaire never said "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." ' "

Kwan was quoted as saying, "She disputed his statement that 'Voltaire never said "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." ' "

When rendered, the non-breaking-spaced version looks similar to or the same as the template version, but improperly mixes content and presentation.

Mozilla/Firefox note

On some Mozilla-based browsers, the spacing is not perfectly even on both sides of the single-quote. There isn't anything we can do about this without making it look equally imperfect in most or all other browsers. This is a Mozilla bug, not a MediaWiki bug.

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• {{'}} (Template:Apostrophe) – for use with adjacent italic markup
• {{`}} – for use with adjacent bold markup
• {{'s}} – for inserting an apostrophe and "s" immediately following italic markup
• {{`s}} – for inserting an apostrophe and "s" immediately following bold markup
• {{′}} (Template:Prime)
• {{''}}
• {{' "}} (Template:Single+double)
• {{" '}} (Template:Double+single)
• {{' '}} (Template:Single+single)
• {{" ' "}} (Template:Double+single+double)
• {{' " '}} (Template:Single+double+single)
• {{-"}} (Template:Space+double)
• {{"-}} (Template:Double+space)
• {{-'}} (Template:Space+single)
• {{'-}} (Template:Single+space)
• {{--)}} (Template:Space+parenthesis) (it's --) because ) and -) were already used by other templates)
• {{(-}} (Template:Parenthesis+space) (using (-- also works, for consistency with the one above)

• Quotation mark templates