to quote or not to quote

[librab103]

How many people when designing a web pages use quotations around their variables (Don't know if that's the real name for them). like this -- border="0" or border=0 .

[iNeb]

I quote, doesn't mater to me.

[Dj-Icer]

I use quote. Perhaps it'd be even clearer if you submit your thread with polls so that we could see how many of us use quote.

[Droppyale]

it depends... if I am using php no quotes...

for just plain html quotes...

[OuTpaTienT]

I've started always using quotes because it seems to make it easier whenever I have to go back to my html files and do a search 'n replace.

Foir example, searching and auto replacing for a value like left, center, right, top, bottom could be dangerous if the document has a lot of text in the body. But doing the same search for "left", "center", etc. I could be fairly certain only the values I want to be changed will be.

Yes I know even without quotes I could search for =left, =center, etc. But much of my sloppy code is inconsistant and sometimes I have spaces after equal signs, sometimes not. But I always keep quotes tight around whatever they enclose...just an old habit from when I learned to type.

[crouse]

http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/intro/sgmltut.html#h-3.2

By default, SGML requires that all attribute values be delimited using either double quotation marks (ASCII decimal 34) or single quotation marks (ASCII decimal 39). Single quote marks can be included within the attribute value when the value is delimited by double quote marks, and vice versa. Authors may also use numeric character references to represent double quotes (") and single quotes ('). For double quotes authors can also use the character entity reference ".

In certain cases, authors may specify the value of an attribute without any quotation marks. The attribute value may only contain letters (a-z and A-Z), digits (0-9), hyphens (ASCII decimal 45), periods (ASCII decimal 46), underscores (ASCII decimal 95), and colons (ASCII decimal 58). We recommend using quotation marks even when it is possible to eliminate them.

[librab103]

Yea I use them for the same reason OuTpaTienT has.

[ClubMed]

I use them too, it's simply a habit.