Alternate Text in a Pull-Quote

If you want certain pull-quotes to differ from the actual text in the <span>, turn on the "Use alternate text if available" option, then put the desired quotation in an HTML comment, like so:
<span class="pullquote"><!-- This is a pullquote -->This, with some extra text we don't want, is a pullquote</span>.

If you are using the rich-text editor, you will have to click the "HTML" button to see the source code in order to do this.

Please note that you may not put a double dash ("--") in an HTML comment, as that ends the comment and will cause some weirdness on your page. This is a standard (if little-known) rule of HTML, and is not caused by this plugin.

CAUTION: Due to a bug in Safari (Mac OS X browser), alternate pull-quote text does not display. [UPDATED: The new Safari 3 beta version appears to have fixed this.] Assuming some of your readers might use this browser, you have two choices:

  1. Do the alternate text as described. Safari will show the actual text in the span as though the alternate were not there.
  2. Put the comment alone in a pullquote span, just before the sentence you're (sort of) quoting. Safari will not show any pullquote at all, but other browsers will work normally. Example: <span class="pullquote"><!-- Darn that Safari! --></span>Darn that Javascript-mangling Safari!

Please note that in either case, things should "Upgrade Gracefully", meaning that when Apple fixes the bug, we shouldn't have to change anything — the alternate quotes will suddenly just work.

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