Here are my opinions on when you should use different kinds of quotation marks in code and prose.
'"“, ‘, ’, ”Efficiency and clean looks matter most with programming languages (Python, JavaScript, etc.). Use single quotes here.
// JavaScript
alert('Hello, world!');// CSS/Sass
@import 'partials/breakpoints';Note the 'example' within the Django code block nested in HTML here:
<!-- HTML/Django template -->
<a href="{% url 'example' example.id %}">{{ example.id }}</a>HTML should use double-quotes. It’s more public (view source), so it should feel a little more official. HTML feels old fashioned in a way that befits double quotes.
<img src="http://example.com/fish.png" alt="A fish">Any text intended solely for reading should use proper curly quotes.
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