Question: I have a jsfiddle here - <http://jsfiddle.net/qYR6U/8/> - where I set the `font-family` with jQuery and read it back with jQuery. If the `font-family` I set is "Arial . . ." it comes back okay, in a single set of double quotes. But if the `font-family` I set is "Comic . . ." it comes back in a set of double quotes enclosed inside of a set of single quotes. 

This only happens with Chrome. Does anyone know what's going on?

```
$('#box').css('font-family', 'Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif');
var fontFamily1 = $('#box').css('font-family');
console.log(fontFamily1);

$('#box').css('font-family', 'Comic Sans MS');
var fontFamily2 = $('#box').css('font-family');
console.log(fontFamily2);
debugger;

```

Thanks.

Answer: 
It's because when a font name has spaces, the browser is interpreting any string requiring quoting as needing quotes, and hence the quotes are added (which is appropriate for the browser to do). Why only Chrome appears to do this (normal) quoting when it's property is read back, you got me.

Try [`Times New Roman`](http://jsfiddle.net/qYR6U/9/), you get the same quoted string back.

From [W3](http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/fonts.html#propdef-font-family):

> 
> To avoid mistakes in escaping, it is recommended to **quote font family names that contain white space, digits, or punctuation characters** other than hyphens:
> 
> 
> 

```
body { font-family: "New Century Schoolbook", serif }

<BODY STYLE="font-family: '21st Century', fantasy">

```
You are using single quotes for the JS function arguments. To set `font-family` with a font that's name has multiple words, you should enclose the name in quotes, too.

So instead of using `'Comic Sans MS'` in your code, try `'"Comic Sans MS"'`. (Single and double quotes).
I believe the `Arial` one works because that's just one word.

EDIT: I might've misunderstood.
If the problem is that you have quotes around a string that you don't want to have quotes around, you just need to remove them by string manipulation.