It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. — Eleanor Roosevelt
Matthias Ott, relaying an idea he heard from Derek Sivers:
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There is a content property in CSS that's made to use in tandem with the ::before and ::after pseudo elements. It injects content into the element.
Here's an example:
<div
data-done="✅"
class="email">
[email protected]
</div>.email::before {
content: attr(data-done) " Email: "; /* This gets inserted before the email address */
}The property generally takes anything you drop in there. However, there are some invalid values it won't accept. I heard from someone recently who was confused by this, so … Read article
I vividly remember my first encounter with a content management system: It was 2002 with a platform called PHP-Nuke. It offered a control panel where site administrators could publish new content that would be immediately available to readers, without the need to create/edit HTML files and upload them via FTP (which at the time was the only reality I knew).
Once I'd made the jump to a CMS, I didn't look back. CMSs quickly became part of my toolkit … Read article
Did you know that you can animate the content property of pseudo elements? According the list of animatable properties in the spec, you shouldn't be able to, but in the latest version of desktop Chrome you can. … Read article