Pull quotes, lift-out quotes, or call-outs are a handy method of drawing reader's attention to a section of text. Recently, on a couple of client projects, I've seen the need to enhance large blocks of text so the user could skim read them without missing the really important parts. Pull quotes seemed perfect for this, so I created a small jQuery script to take care of them.

In this article I demonstrate an easy method of creating pull quotes from a block of text using jQuery (a JavaScript library), CSS, and the html span element. I hope you find this method useful.

Website coders often find themselves working on a variety of web sites, and when starting out, and learning new methods and techniques everyday, the mark-up used can often be messy, random, and inconsistent.

When working with someone else on a project the problem can be even larger, especially when you both have unique ways of doing things, which can cause confusion, drastically increasing project development time.

But how can this be avoided? This article focuses on setting you own standards, creating re-usable snippets of code and web documents, and the benefits of doing so.

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