<ms>

The MathML <ms> element represents a string literal meant to be interpreted by programming languages and computer algebra systems. By default, string literals are displayed as enclosed by double quotes ("); by using the lquote and rquote attributes, you can set custom characters to display. Note that quotation marks should not be specified unless they are part of the string literal. The content of an <ms> element is not an ASCII string per se, but rather a sequence of characters and <mglyph> and <malignmark> elements.

Attributes

class, id, style

Provided for use with stylesheets.

dir

The text direction. Possible values are either ltr (left to right) or rtl (right to left).

lquote

The opening quote character (depends on dir) to enclose the content. The default value is """.

href

Used to set a hyperlink to a specified URI.

mathbackground

The background color. You can use #rgb, #rrggbb and HTML color names.

mathcolor

The text color. You can use #rgb, #rrggbb and HTML color names.

mathsize

The size of the content. Possible values are:

• small: Font is rendered smaller than the current font size.
• normal:Equivalent to 100% or 1em.
• big: Font is rendered larger than the current font size.
• a custom length.
• or a unitless value which multiplies the default.

mathvariant

This attribute specifies the logical class of the identifier, which varies in typography. That is, although the names suggest the typographic style for the class, semantically, items with the same class are treated "the same" within an expression, which might or might not involve displaying them with the named typography. The following values are allowed:

• normal (Default value) ; $\mathrm{''Example''}$
• bold ; $\mathbf{''Example''}$
• italic ; $\mathit{''Example''}$
• bold-italic ; $\mathit{''Example''}$

• double-struck ; $\mathbb{''Example''}$
• bold-fraktur ; $\mathfrak{''Example''}$
• script ; $\mathcal{''Example''}$
• bold-script ; $\mathcal{''Example''}$
• fraktur ; $\mathfrak{''Example''}$

• sans-serif ; $\mathsf{''Example''}$
• bold-sans-serif ; $\mathsf{''Example''}$
• sans-serif-italic ; $\mathsf{''Example''}$
• sans-serif-bold-italic ; $\mathsf{''Example''}$
• monospace ; $\mathtt{''Example''}$

• initial ; ${''مثال''}$
• tailed ; ${''مثال''}$
• looped ; ${''مثال''}$
• stretched ; ${''مثال''}$

rquote

The closing quote mark (depends on dir) to enclose the content. The default value is """.

Examples

<math>
  <ms lquote="„" rquote="“"> abc </ms>
</math>

Specifications

Browser compatibility

Gecko-specific notes

• Starting with Gecko 20.0 (Firefox 20.0 / Thunderbird 20.0 / SeaMonkey 2.17) a unitless value for mathsize is allowed.
• Some mathvariant values are only implemented starting with Gecko 28.0 (Firefox 28.0 / Thunderbird 28.0 / SeaMonkey 2.25) and require appropriate math fonts.