Re: CSS2.1 Various Inline-related Stuff

On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, Ian Hickson (that's me) wrote:
> 
> Extending this to 'content', you have:
> 
>    element has text content         content: 'bar'
>    element has empty text content   content: ''
>    empty element                    content: none

Incidentally, now that we have ::list-marker, we can use :before and
content:'' to solve the problem I raised over 2 years ago:

   http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2000Jun/0008.html

So there is definitely a use for generating empty inline elements.

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