- From: Ian Hickson <py8ieh@bath.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 00:05:16 +0000 (GMT)
- To: Matthew Brealey <thelawnet@yahoo.com>
- cc: www-style <www-style@w3.org>
On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Matthew Brealey wrote:
>> Nothing normative, at any rate. You can treat BR as an empty inline
>> element with this style:
>>
>> BR:before {
>> content: '\A';
>> white-space: pre;
>> }
> It could equally well be done as BR:after, thereby causing drastically
> different results, which demonstrates why it isn't a good idea to
> treat it in this manner at all.
Why different results? Since there is no content (it is an empty element),
the :before and :after pseudo-elements would have basically the same
effect.
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