content

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="&#x2705;"
  class="email">
    chriscoyier@gmail.com
</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 I had a little play with it myself and learned a few things.

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