Question

It appears to me that Chrome does not treat “before” pseudoelement as a part of an element. More precisely, I have CSS definition

.myclass:before{content:"A";}

and HTML code

<a href="blah" class="myclass">B</a>

In Chrome the result is a hyperlink “AB” but only “B” is actually clickable. In Firefox and Opera the whole “AB” is a link, and my reading of CSS standard indicates that Chrome is wrong here.

Am I right in assuming that this is Chrome’s bug? Is there a simple and clean workaround?

Answer 1

It seems that you can work around it with:

.myclass {
    display: inline-block
}

http://jsfiddle.net/SUKYw/

Looks like a Chrome bug – Safari does not have the same problem.