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Utilities for controlling the content of the before and after pseudo-elements.
| Class | Styles |
|---|---|
content-[<value>] | |
content: <value>; |
|
| content-(<custom-property>) |
content: var(<custom-property>);
|
| content-none |
content: none;
|
Use the content-[<value>] syntax, along with the before and after variants, to set the contents of the ::before and ::after pseudo-elements:
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Use the content-[attr(<name>)] syntax to reference a value stored in an attribute using the attr() CSS function:
<p before="Hello World" class="before:content-[attr(before)] ..."> <!-- ... --></p>
Since whitespace denotes the end of a class in HTML, replace any spaces in an arbitrary value with an underscore:
<p class="before:content-['Hello_World'] ..."></p>
If you need to include an actual underscore, you can do this by escaping it with a backslash:
<p class="before:content-['Hello\_World']"></p>
Use the content-(<custom-property>) syntax to control the contents of the ::before and ::after pseudo-elements using a CSS variable:
<p class="content-(--my-content)"></p>
This is just a shorthand for content-[var(<custom-property>)] that adds the var() function for you automatically.
Prefix a content utility with a breakpoint variant like md: to only apply the utility at medium screen sizes and above:
<p class="before:content-['Mobile'] md:before:content-['Desktop'] ..."></p>
Learn more about using variants in the variants documentation.
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