quotes within html attribute

how does the browser know which quote ends the attribute value?
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Jochem
Jochem2mo ago
one opens, the next closes I think the ones inside that highlight are probably not actual double quotes but the fancy opposing quotationmarks or something, but it's impossible to tell from a screenshot
reddogg476
reddogg4762mo ago
it uses a lexer, parsing the DOM's HTML string/body/elements/attributes/strings
reddogg476
reddogg4762mo ago
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