quot

quot is the named character reference used in SGML-family markup languages to denote the double quotation mark. It represents the character U+0022, commonly known as the double quote. The quot entity is defined in SGML and is part of the predefined entities in XML and HTML.

In markup languages, quot is used to include a literal double quote inside content or inside attribute values without terminating the surrounding quotes. For example, in HTML or XML, the sequence " yields a double quote in rendered text. It can also be expressed with numeric character references such as " or ".

Historically, quot was part of the SGML entity repertoire and has remained in the modern XML and HTML specifications as a standard way to represent quotes in a markup-safe form. In HTML5 and XML, quoting via named entities helps avoid character encoding issues and improves readability.

See also XML predefined entities, HTML entity references, SGML.