- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 22:22:36 +0100
- To: Nicolas Lesbats <nlesbats@etu.utc.fr>
- CC: www-style@w3.org
Nicolas Lesbats wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> CSS2 don't define, according to what I have read, the behavior of the
> "content" property with the following example. Suppose you have :
>
> E:after { content: "A word\AAnother word" }
>
> How will the UA undertand the \ escape character ? Like \A or like \AA ?
The latter.
> Is this example CSS-conformant ?
Yes, but \AA does not do what you want it to
> Is an white space required after any
> escape sequence ? And before ?
E:after { content: "A word\A Another word" }
Will do what you want; the extra space delimits the escape sequence
(like ; delimits entities in XML).
--
Chris
Received on Thursday, 25 March 1999 16:25:27 UTC