[thelist] style sheets & 'adding' text...

[Craig Saila]

Ben Phillips wrote:
> i have some text that displays the record label for a track. in one
> style sheet, i want this to be surrounded by square brackets, so i ffrr
> becomes [ffrr]. however, i don't want the text to be stored as ffrr, i
> want (if possible) the style sheet to do this for me.

Yup its possible, just not well supported, if you have:
   <span class="recordlabel">ffrr</span>

The rule would be:
   recordlabel:before { content: "["; }
   recordlabel:after { content: "]"; }

This is, AFAIK, only supported by Netscape 6/Mozilla right now. More
details at:
<http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/generate.html#propdef-content>

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Cheers,

Craig Saila
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