content property?

[That's Me]

Hello. I'm curious, is there a "content" property in CSS?I was reading through an email digest I subscribe to and someone posted a CSS snippet with a content property. It looked like this:

code:before { content: " <?"; display:block; } code:after { content: " ?>"; display: block; }

Is this for real or am I dreaming? What does this do, exactly?Thanks.

[pulpfiction]

Check out this link http://www.w3schools.com/css/pr_gen_content.asp

[Pollux]

Yup, thats perfectly valid CSS. It defines generated content to be displayed before/after the current element. It can only be set within the :before and :after pseudo-elements for a real element. So your code there will work fine to put <? before the each code element and ?> after.

[That's Me]

Wicked! Does this work in all browsers?

[newbman]

Nope, before and after don't work in IE. Isn't that a coincidence?