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The content property dictates what is rendered inside an element or pseudo-element. 1. Inserting and replacing content with the content property

Links about content

1. Here’s what I didn’t know about “content”

   posted on May 26, 2020 by Manuel Matuzović

   In part 3 of my series I’m trying to find out what I didn’t know about the `content` property.

   

2. The CSS “content” property accepts alternative text

   posted on April 28, 2020 by stefan judis

   The CSS ‘content’ property allows a way to provide an alternative text

   

3. CSS Content | CSS-Tricks

   posted on May 13, 2015

   CSS has a property called content. It can only be used with the pseudo elements :after and :before. It is written like a pseudo selector (with the colon),

   

4. content

   posted on April 5, 2020 by MDN

   The content CSS property replaces an element with a generated value. Objects inserted using the content property are anonymous replaced elements.

   

Code sample

a::after {
  content: " (" attr(href) ")"; 
}