From 0ab262675372b83fc870accf3dc46d6a367c451c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Estelle Weyl
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2026 07:14:25 -0800
Subject: [PATCH 1/4] Replace curly quote with straight quote (#43104)
* single quote/ apostrophe in blockquote typo
not really a typo, but a markdown thing
* Fix more
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Co-authored-by: Joshua Chen
---
.../structuring_content/splash_page/index.md | 22 +++++++++----------
.../css/guides/fonts/variable_fonts/index.md | 4 ++--
.../web/css/guides/multicol_layout/index.md | 8 +++----
.../layout_cookbook/grid_wrapper/index.md | 4 ++--
.../reference/properties/clip-path/index.md | 8 +++----
.../properties/font-kerning/index.md | 2 +-
.../properties/shape-image-threshold/index.md | 8 +++----
.../properties/shape-margin/index.md | 8 +++----
.../properties/shape-outside/index.md | 8 +++----
.../reference/selectors/_colon_lang/index.md | 4 ++--
.../web/css/reference/values/attr/index.md | 2 +-
.../reference/elements/blockquote/index.md | 4 ++--
.../web/html/reference/elements/br/index.md | 2 +-
.../html/reference/elements/header/index.md | 2 +-
.../web/html/reference/elements/menu/index.md | 2 +-
.../html/reference/elements/summary/index.md | 2 +-
16 files changed, 45 insertions(+), 45 deletions(-)
diff --git a/files/en-us/learn_web_development/core/structuring_content/splash_page/index.md b/files/en-us/learn_web_development/core/structuring_content/splash_page/index.md
index 06b83b40266a79d..1a2e530f244e47a 100644
--- a/files/en-us/learn_web_development/core/structuring_content/splash_page/index.md
+++ b/files/en-us/learn_web_development/core/structuring_content/splash_page/index.md
@@ -41,8 +41,8 @@ To solve this challenge we are expecting you to create a simple website project,
Creepy-crawlies splash page!
- In casual language, people use “bugs” to mean all sorts of small
- creepy-crawlies: insects, spiders, etc. However, “Bugs” (true bugs)
+ In casual language, people use "bugs" to mean all sorts of small
+ creepy-crawlies: insects, spiders, etc. However, "Bugs" (true bugs)
are actually just one order of insects (Hemiptera). This page
provides a summary of the main classes or groups of
creepy-crawlies.
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ To solve this challenge we are expecting you to create a simple website project,
possess distinctive piercing-sucking mouthparts. These mouthparts
are adapted for feeding on plant sap, blood, or other insects. Many
true bugs have scent glands that produce strong odors as a defense
- mechanism, which is why some are called “stink bugs.”
+ mechanism, which is why some are called "stink bugs."
@@ -153,8 +153,8 @@ To solve this challenge we are expecting you to create a simple website project,
Flies & Mosquitoes (Diptera)
- Flies and mosquitoes belong to the order Diptera, meaning “two
- wings.” Unlike most other insects, they have only one functional
+ Flies and mosquitoes belong to the order Diptera, meaning "two
+ wings." Unlike most other insects, they have only one functional
pair of wings; the hind pair has evolved into tiny balancing organs
called halteres. This adaptation gives them incredible agility in
flight. Their mouthparts vary widely: some species have sponging
@@ -233,7 +233,7 @@ To solve this challenge we are expecting you to create a simple website project,
a danger to humans. In fact, spiders are highly beneficial because
they help control insect populations, including pests. They play a
crucial role in balancing ecosystems, making them one of the most
- important non-insect “bugs” people commonly encounter.
+ important non-insect "bugs" people commonly encounter.
@@ -424,8 +424,8 @@ Your finished HTML should look something like this:
preload="auto">
- In casual language, people use “bugs” to mean all sorts of small
- creepy-crawlies: insects, spiders, etc. However, “Bugs” (true bugs)
+ In casual language, people use "bugs" to mean all sorts of small
+ creepy-crawlies: insects, spiders, etc. However, "Bugs" (true bugs)
are actually just one order of insects (Hemiptera). This page provides
a summary of the main classes or groups of creepy-crawlies.
@@ -488,7 +488,7 @@ Your finished HTML should look something like this:
piercing-sucking mouthparts. These mouthparts are adapted for feeding
on plant sap, blood, or other insects. Many true bugs have scent
glands that produce strong odors as a defense mechanism, which is why
- some are called “stink bugs.”
+ some are called "stink bugs."
@@ -569,7 +569,7 @@ Your finished HTML should look something like this:
- Flies and mosquitoes belong to the order Diptera, meaning “two wings.”
+ Flies and mosquitoes belong to the order Diptera, meaning "two wings."
Unlike most other insects, they have only one functional pair of
wings; the hind pair has evolved into tiny balancing organs called
halteres. This adaptation gives them incredible agility in flight.
@@ -663,7 +663,7 @@ Your finished HTML should look something like this:
danger to humans. In fact, spiders are highly beneficial because they
help control insect populations, including pests. They play a crucial
role in balancing ecosystems, making them one of the most important
- non-insect “bugs” people commonly encounter.
+ non-insect "bugs" people commonly encounter.
diff --git a/files/en-us/web/css/guides/fonts/variable_fonts/index.md b/files/en-us/web/css/guides/fonts/variable_fonts/index.md
index 00a451c0dfdace6..826bcb60752dee5 100644
--- a/files/en-us/web/css/guides/fonts/variable_fonts/index.md
+++ b/files/en-us/web/css/guides/fonts/variable_fonts/index.md
@@ -739,7 +739,7 @@ The following example pages show two different ways to structure your CSS. The f
before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet;
and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it
requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping
- into the street, and methodically knocking people’s hats off then, I account
+ into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off then, I account
it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.
@@ -757,7 +757,7 @@ The following example pages show two different ways to structure your CSS. The f
before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet;
and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it
requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping
- into the street, and methodically knocking people’s hats off then, I account
+ into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off then, I account
it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.
diff --git a/files/en-us/web/css/guides/multicol_layout/index.md b/files/en-us/web/css/guides/multicol_layout/index.md
index b35d37f484df594..25688b15a18c759 100644
--- a/files/en-us/web/css/guides/multicol_layout/index.md
+++ b/files/en-us/web/css/guides/multicol_layout/index.md
@@ -29,8 +29,8 @@ In this example, the 1967 speech from Canada's centennial, _A Lament for Confede
For I have known you when your forests were mine; when they gave me my meat
and my clothing. I have known you in your fruits and rivers where your fish
- flashed and danced in the sun, where the waters said ‘come and eat of my
- abundance.’ I have known you in the freedom of your winds. And my spirit,
+ flashed and danced in the sun, where the waters said 'come and eat of my
+ abundance.' I have known you in the freedom of your winds. And my spirit,
like your winds, once roamed this good lands.
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ In this example, the 1967 speech from Canada's centennial, _A Lament for Confede
- The white man’s strange customs I could not understand, pressed down upon me
+ The white man's strange customs I could not understand, pressed down upon me
until I could no longer breathe.
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ In this example, the 1967 speech from Canada's centennial, _A Lament for Confede
Oh god, like the thunderbird of old, I shall rise again out of the sea. I
- shall grab the instruments of the white man’s success – his education, his
+ shall grab the instruments of the white man's success – his education, his
skills, and with these new tools I shall build my race into the proudest
segment of your society. And, before I follow the great chiefs who have gone
before us, I shall see these things come to pass.
diff --git a/files/en-us/web/css/how_to/layout_cookbook/grid_wrapper/index.md b/files/en-us/web/css/how_to/layout_cookbook/grid_wrapper/index.md
index dec41f9d06f2be5..b1d655923cb745e 100644
--- a/files/en-us/web/css/how_to/layout_cookbook/grid_wrapper/index.md
+++ b/files/en-us/web/css/how_to/layout_cookbook/grid_wrapper/index.md
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ Click "Play" in the code blocks below to edit the example in the MDN Playground:
- This item aligns to a central “wrapper” – columns that have a maximum
+ This item aligns to a central "wrapper" – columns that have a maximum
width.
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ Click "Play" in the code blocks below to edit the example in the MDN Playground:
-
This item aligns to the right edge of the “wrapper” columns.
+
This item aligns to the right edge of the "wrapper" columns.
```
diff --git a/files/en-us/web/css/reference/properties/clip-path/index.md b/files/en-us/web/css/reference/properties/clip-path/index.md
index 84d21eab97f89b2..beed0f2c0098fb3 100644
--- a/files/en-us/web/css/reference/properties/clip-path/index.md
+++ b/files/en-us/web/css/reference/properties/clip-path/index.md
@@ -43,11 +43,11 @@ clip-path: xywh(0 5px 100% 75% round 15% 0);
src="/shared-assets/images/examples/balloon-small.jpg"
width="150" />
We had agreed, my companion and I, that I should call for him at his house,
- after dinner, not later than eleven o’clock. This athletic young Frenchman
- belongs to a small set of Parisian sportsmen, who have taken up “ballooning”
+ after dinner, not later than eleven o'clock. This athletic young Frenchman
+ belongs to a small set of Parisian sportsmen, who have taken up "ballooning"
as a pastime. After having exhausted all the sensations that are to be found
- in ordinary sports, even those of “automobiling” at a breakneck speed, the
- members of the “Aéro Club” now seek in the air, where they indulge in all
+ in ordinary sports, even those of "automobiling" at a breakneck speed, the
+ members of the "Aéro Club" now seek in the air, where they indulge in all
kinds of daring feats, the nerve-racking excitement that they have ceased to
find on earth.
diff --git a/files/en-us/web/css/reference/properties/font-kerning/index.md b/files/en-us/web/css/reference/properties/font-kerning/index.md
index 86c2186c7f789f6..2e211658ec4cfe3 100644
--- a/files/en-us/web/css/reference/properties/font-kerning/index.md
+++ b/files/en-us/web/css/reference/properties/font-kerning/index.md
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ font-kerning: none;
```html interactive-example
- “We took Tracy to see ‘THE WATERFALL’ in W. Virginia.”
+ "We took Tracy to see 'THE WATERFALL' in W. Virginia."
We had agreed, my companion and I, that I should call for him at his house,
- after dinner, not later than eleven o’clock. This athletic young Frenchman
- belongs to a small set of Parisian sportsmen, who have taken up “ballooning”
+ after dinner, not later than eleven o'clock. This athletic young Frenchman
+ belongs to a small set of Parisian sportsmen, who have taken up "ballooning"
as a pastime. After having exhausted all the sensations that are to be found
- in ordinary sports, even those of “automobiling” at a breakneck speed, the
- members of the “Aéro Club” now seek in the air, where they indulge in all
+ in ordinary sports, even those of "automobiling" at a breakneck speed, the
+ members of the "Aéro Club" now seek in the air, where they indulge in all
kinds of daring feats, the nerve-racking excitement that they have ceased to
find on earth.
We had agreed, my companion and I, that I should call for him at his house,
- after dinner, not later than eleven o’clock. This athletic young Frenchman
- belongs to a small set of Parisian sportsmen, who have taken up “ballooning”
+ after dinner, not later than eleven o'clock. This athletic young Frenchman
+ belongs to a small set of Parisian sportsmen, who have taken up "ballooning"
as a pastime. After having exhausted all the sensations that are to be found
- in ordinary sports, even those of “automobiling” at a breakneck speed, the
- members of the “Aéro Club” now seek in the air, where they indulge in all
+ in ordinary sports, even those of "automobiling" at a breakneck speed, the
+ members of the "Aéro Club" now seek in the air, where they indulge in all
kinds of daring feats, the nerve-racking excitement that they have ceased to
find on earth.
diff --git a/files/en-us/web/css/reference/properties/shape-outside/index.md b/files/en-us/web/css/reference/properties/shape-outside/index.md
index ebb2b6b10670612..d4d5278099fe5fa 100644
--- a/files/en-us/web/css/reference/properties/shape-outside/index.md
+++ b/files/en-us/web/css/reference/properties/shape-outside/index.md
@@ -35,11 +35,11 @@ shape-outside: polygon(50% 0, 100% 50%, 50% 100%, 0 50%);
src="/shared-assets/images/examples/round-balloon.png"
width="150" />
We had agreed, my companion and I, that I should call for him at his house,
- after dinner, not later than eleven o’clock. This athletic young Frenchman
- belongs to a small set of Parisian sportsmen, who have taken up “ballooning”
+ after dinner, not later than eleven o'clock. This athletic young Frenchman
+ belongs to a small set of Parisian sportsmen, who have taken up "ballooning"
as a pastime. After having exhausted all the sensations that are to be found
- in ordinary sports, even those of “automobiling” at a breakneck speed, the
- members of the “Aéro Club” now seek in the air, where they indulge in all
+ in ordinary sports, even those of "automobiling" at a breakneck speed, the
+ members of the "Aéro Club" now seek in the air, where they indulge in all
kinds of daring feats, the nerve-racking excitement that they have ceased to
find on earth.
diff --git a/files/en-us/web/css/reference/selectors/_colon_lang/index.md b/files/en-us/web/css/reference/selectors/_colon_lang/index.md
index 4461b3b8d30a4a1..16b1d5eceea8078 100644
--- a/files/en-us/web/css/reference/selectors/_colon_lang/index.md
+++ b/files/en-us/web/css/reference/selectors/_colon_lang/index.md
@@ -18,8 +18,8 @@ The **`:lang()`** [CSS](/en-US/docs/Web/CSS) [pseudo-class](/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/
```html interactive-example
- Music during road trips and long commutes aren’t a problem, but using
- headphones isn’t the best thing to do while driving in your car.
+ Music during road trips and long commutes aren't a problem, but using
+ headphones isn't the best thing to do while driving in your car.
diff --git a/files/en-us/web/css/reference/values/attr/index.md b/files/en-us/web/css/reference/values/attr/index.md
index 5f34a27e9897154..847390622b18cb7 100644
--- a/files/en-us/web/css/reference/values/attr/index.md
+++ b/files/en-us/web/css/reference/values/attr/index.md
@@ -369,7 +369,7 @@ The HTML contains four cards with different `id` attributes and a "Shuffle cards
Your browser does not support advanced attr(). As a result,
- this demo won’t do anything.
+ this demo won't do anything.
```
diff --git a/files/en-us/web/html/reference/elements/blockquote/index.md b/files/en-us/web/html/reference/elements/blockquote/index.md
index 57c33b50e25b4c2..6b64ccf8b2841a6 100644
--- a/files/en-us/web/html/reference/elements/blockquote/index.md
+++ b/files/en-us/web/html/reference/elements/blockquote/index.md
@@ -14,8 +14,8 @@ The **`
`** [HTML](/en-US/docs/Web/HTML) element indicates that the e
- Words can be like X-rays, if you use them properly—they’ll go through
- anything. You read and you’re pierced.
+ Words can be like X-rays, if you use them properly—they'll go through
+ anything. You read and you're pierced.
—Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
diff --git a/files/en-us/web/html/reference/elements/br/index.md b/files/en-us/web/html/reference/elements/br/index.md
index ef0b983911c7f0c..bfacaa9cbb90bc8 100644
--- a/files/en-us/web/html/reference/elements/br/index.md
+++ b/files/en-us/web/html/reference/elements/br/index.md
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ The **` `** [HTML](/en-US/docs/Web/HTML) element produces a line break in tex
```html interactive-example
- O’er all the hilltops
+ O'er all the hilltops
Is quiet now,
In all the treetops
Hearest thou
diff --git a/files/en-us/web/html/reference/elements/header/index.md b/files/en-us/web/html/reference/elements/header/index.md
index 242c54d50d458c9..281872236b6a5e6 100644
--- a/files/en-us/web/html/reference/elements/header/index.md
+++ b/files/en-us/web/html/reference/elements/header/index.md
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ The **``** [HTML](/en-US/docs/Web/HTML) element represents introductory
- I love beagles so much! Like, really, a lot. They’re adorable and
+ I love beagles so much! Like, really, a lot. They're adorable and
their ears are so, so snugly soft!
diff --git a/files/en-us/web/html/reference/elements/menu/index.md b/files/en-us/web/html/reference/elements/menu/index.md
index 9a893bd2608df68..750f1657a0848ee 100644
--- a/files/en-us/web/html/reference/elements/menu/index.md
+++ b/files/en-us/web/html/reference/elements/menu/index.md
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ The **`