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Asked: 2026-05-23T17:39:50+00:00

I am new to CSS and I’m following a book example: Iv’e copied the

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I am new to CSS and I’m following a book example:

Iv’e copied the following from the book and saved it as HTML.
all the css properties seem to work except the “content” property which does not display.Thanks in advance.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html>
    <head>
        <title> The content property </title>
        <style type='text/css' media='all'>
            div {
                content: "Hello, world!";
            }
        </style>
    </head>
    <body>
        <div></div>
    </body>
</html>
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  1. Editorial Team

    content is used with :before or :after like so:

    div:after
{
    content: "Hello, world!";
}

    Regardless, I’ve only used content for special cases (to clear floated elements, for example). I’ve never actually used this to insert content. You generally want to separate content and presentation anyway, so I think this is a bad idea. Which book are you reading? 🙂

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