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Asked: June 9, 20262026-06-09T06:04:50+00:00 2026-06-09T06:04:50+00:00

As far as I can tell you can’t use :before or :after with text

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As far as I can tell you can’t use :before or :after with text content on an image element? Is this correct? Am I missing something?

http://jsfiddle.net/rcztz/

I know semantically this isn’t correct, I’m using because I’m appending the src to the image using js, but if there’s no src I’d like to display alternative content (I could use another div, but it would be nice to just use :after or :before)

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    2026-06-09T06:04:52+00:00Added an answer on June 9, 2026 at 6:04 am

    This is correct. You are not able to use pseudo elements on images

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