What's the rule of thumb when deciding whether to use a single Apostrophe' or a Quote"?

HTML & CSS
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What’s the rule of thumb when deciding whether to use a single Apostrophe’ or a Quote"? And is there a difference?

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While both will work when quoting HTML attributes, the usual convention is to use double quotes, and single quotes inside them if needed.

For example:

<img alt="The good ship 'Lollipop' in dry dock">

Using single quotes will cause problems if your text includes an apostrophe, because that will be seen as the closing quote.

e.g.

<a href='http://whatever.com' title='Visit Mabel's website'>
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Like in this case?

<div style="width:650px;display:block;" onclick="thevid=document.getElementById('thevideo');
thevid.style.display='block'; this.style.display='none'; 
document.getElementById('iframe').src = 
document.getElementById('iframe').src.replace('autoplay=0','autoplay=1');">
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Yes.

(BTW, please stop adding HTML and CSS tags to your topics in this category; they’re not needed. The tags are to add additional information; if you’re posting in this category, it’s already understood that your topic is about HTML and/or CSS.)

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ok… so I can leave it blank then? I didn’t know that. Some forums force you to put tags. That’s why I’ve always been adding them, didn’t know I didn’t need to on here. Thank you for telling me.

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