Text Wrapping & Inline Pseudo Elements

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I love posts like this. It’s just about adding a little icon to the end of certain links, but it ends up touching on a million things along the way. I think this is an example of why some people find front-end fun and some people rather dislike it.

Things involved:

  1. Cool [attribute] selectors that identify off-site links
  2. Deliberating on whether it’s OK to use additional HTML within links or not
  3. Usage of white-space
  4. Combining margin-left and padding-right to place icons into placeholder space
  5. Using custom properties to keep things easier
  6. Usage of inline SVG versus background SVG
  7. Considering inline versus inline-block
  8. Using masks

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