Enclosing text in
TwoSingleQuotes emphasizes it by putting <em></em> tags around it in the document delivered to and displayed by the browser.
ThreeSingleQuotes result in <strong></strong> tags. As a consequence,
FiveSingleQuotes should produce text that is rendered both emphasized and strong.
Let's
check this. <-- This works out to --> Let's <strong><em>check</strong></em> this.
As you can see, this isn't proper HTML; the tags are nested incorrectly. However, the code works fine under almost every browser -- in fact, no one has yet cited a specific browser/platform combination that fails to properly render this. As a consequence, there is no reason to avoid using
FiveSingleQuotes, but it would be nice if this bug could be fixed, as generating proper HTML is
GoodPractice and a
GoodThing, whereas trying how far the browsers' error recovery routines can be pushed and encouraging sloppy markup arguably are
BadThings.
See also:
TwoSingleQuotes,
ThreeSingleQuotes,
FourSingleQuotes,
SixSingleQuotes
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