Ditto Marks
So what good are those typewriter quote marks on your keyboard? Well, go ahead and use them in email because it’s too much trouble to take the time to set real quotation marks. And until every browser and email client used on the web can interpret the code correctly, we have to be patient with typewriter apostrophes and quote marks in most HTML code. You can use these as ditto marks, should you ever need to set ditto marks to show that an item is repeated, as shown below (although some people do prefer to use double prime marks as ditto marks).
| Superman | 128 Power Street | Metropolis | USA | |
| Lois Lane | 327 Reporter Way | ″ | ″ | ________ ditto marks |
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