Hi forum,

I am inserting much content into elements using the ‘content’ property and the ‘::before’ and ‘::after’ pseudo‐elements. The inserted content is mostly punctuation and other content important to the document presentation.

But how to deal with non‐compliant software—such as the Internet Explorer series of web browsers?

Dean Edwards' IE7 JavaScript library does fix some of IE4–7's CSS problems. Generated content is one of them. But then the page presentation is dependent on JavaScript. Edwards' JavaScript library does not load properly on all machines either. (That has something to do with IE's security settings.)

I have also seen many use ‘background-image’s instead of the ‘content’ property. Though this is no good solution. It breaks way too easily. When eg. the user alters the text size, does some scaling, or whatever.

Have anyone come up with a good solution to this problem?

Thread originally posted on My Opera forums.

Are you still trying to use HTML 5 ?? before and after pseudo elements are not well supported in all browsers.

No. This comes from the CSS 2 spesifications. Look‐up the Generated content section and the ‘content’ property.

Ok.. just checking -- you were working on the bleeding edge there before

You might want to pose your question to the gurus over on the CSS-Discuss list. www.css-discuss.org - If the likes of Chris Heilmann, Eric Myer, Zoe Gillenwater, Big John and Holly can't help (they're all on that list), then no one can.