- From: Emilio Cobos Álvarez via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2024 13:32:46 +0000
- To: public-css-archive@w3.org
> Having `::text` (as a real node) would also be supremely useful when doing something seemingly simple like hiding text next to an icon. Consider (using Font Awesome):
>
> ```
> <a href="#"><i class="fa fa-gear"></i> Edit</a>
> ```
>
> Currently, one must do tricks with `overflow: hidden` and `width` (or several varieties of this hack) to show just the icon. It would be wonderful to just have a rule `a ::text { display: none; }` (or better yet: `i.fa + ::text { display: none; }`
content: none ought to work for this, right? But when we implemented it wasn't web compatible, we'd need a separate keyword
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