Question

I would like to use HTML entities in CSS, but it shows me the • instead.

.down:before{
    content:"• ";
    color:#f00;
}

Also, why does the above code not work in IE? it does not show the before part at all.

Answer 1

put hex value of your bullet specail character like this

div:before{
    content:"\2022";
    color:#f00;
}

check this fiddle http://jsfiddle.net/sandeep/HPrkU/1/

NOTE: after & before work in IE8