“QuoteQuote”

Convert boring, straight quotes (" and ') to beautiful, typographically correct curly quotes — also known as smart quotes.

Highlights

• Converts straight single/double quotes to curly quotes.
• Converts straight quotes used as primes to prime symbols.
• Handles contractions, possessives and abbreviated years.
• Lightweight, zero dependencies, modern, and tree-shakeable.

Installing

Install with a package manager such as npm, pnpm or yarn.

npm install quote-quote

Example

ESM

import { convert } from 'quote-quote';

const text = `"That's a 'magic' shoe."`;

convert(text); // “That’s a ‘magic’ shoe.”

CommonJS

const { convert } = require('quote-quote');

const text = `"That's a 'magic' shoe."`;

convert(text); // “That’s a ‘magic’ shoe.”

Browser

Load quote-quote.min.js to expose the library globally as QuoteQuote. It can be loaded from a CDN such as jsDelivr or UNPKG.

<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/quote-quote@1/dist/quote-quote.min.js"></script>
<script>
  QuoteQuote.convert(`"That's a 'magic' shoe."`);
</script>

Or load quote-quote.esm.min.js to use the library as an ES module, but without requiring a bundler.

<script type="module">
  import { convert } from 'https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/quote-quote@1/dist/quote-quote.esm.min.js';

  convert(`"That's a 'magic' shoe."`);
</script>

API Summary

convert()	Convert straight quotes to curly quotes.
convertMarkdown()	Convert straight quotes to curly quotes in Markdown.

API

convert(text[, options])

Convert straight quotes to curly quotes.

text	String – the text that may contain straight quotes
[options]	Object – optional options
[options.ellipsis]	Boolean – whether to also convert "..." to an ellipsis
Returns	String
Throws	TypeError – if text is not a String or options not an Object

Example:

import { convert } from 'quote-quote';

const text = `"That's a 'magic' shoe."`;

convert(text); // “That’s a ‘magic’ shoe.”

Example using options:

import { convert } from 'quote-quote';

const text = `"That's a 'magic' shoe..."`;

convert(text, { ellipsis: true }); // “That’s a ‘magic’ shoe…”

convertMarkdown(text[, options])

Convert straight quotes to curly quotes in text formatted as Markdown. This means that quotes inside code are not converted.

text	String – the text that may contain straight quotes
[options]	Object – optional options
[options.ellipsis]	Boolean – whether to also convert "..." to an ellipsis
Returns	String
Throws	TypeError – if text is not a String or options not an Object

Example:

import { convertMarkdown } from 'quote-quote';

const text = '"Hello `"world"`" they said.';

convertMarkdown(text); // “Hello `"world"`” they said.

Example using options:

import { convertMarkdown } from 'quote-quote';

const text = '"Hello `"world"`" they said...';

convertMarkdown(text, { ellipsis: true }); // “Hello `"world"`” they said…

Versioning

This project follows SemVer (Semantic Versioning).

Support

QuoteQuote ships ES2022 syntax. Supported environments:

• Chrome 85
• Firefox 78
• Edge 85
• Safari 16.4
• iOS 16.4
• Node.js 15
• Deno 1.2