Re: Generated content

On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Matthew Brealey wrote:
> This fails to define the rendering of 
>    P.note:before { content: "Note: "; display: block; }
>    P.note        { border: solid green }
> - does the border cover the block before.
>
> The spec does not say whether it does. Clearly the best answer is
> no, [...]

(Clearly?)

The answer is actually yes. In the case above, you get pseudo markup
equivalent to:

   <p>
      <p:before>
         <anonymous-inline>Note: </anonymous-inline>
      </p:before>
      <anonymous-block>
         <anonymous-inline>....</anonymous-inline>
      </anonymous-block>
   </p>

Thus the border surrounds the :before as well as the element's 'real'
content.

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