- From: Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 09:01:14 -0800
- To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>
- Cc: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
> On Feb 18, 2015, at 6:10 AM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote: > >> On 2/18/15 3:58 AM, Daniel Tan wrote: >> However, CSS2.1 says nothing at all about replaced elements in the >> section on content: url(), which leads me to believe this is new to >> level 3. > > It is. > > CSS2.1 doesn't really clearly define the processing model of 'content' on ::before and ::after, but the informative examples in CSS 2.1, the fact that 'content' specifies a _list_ of things, and the desire for consistency has led to UA behavior being the following: the 'content' property specifies a list of things that become children of the ::before or ::after box. > > -Boris Perhaps 'image()' could include another parameter, like '200x300', to specify an override of the intrinsic dimensions of the image, and then we could use 'inage()' instead of url() in the 'content' property for this.
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