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I think it makes perfect sense. CSS is for display, not content. Therefore, anything that gets put in before/after is a display matter only, it's not semantic c

• sergeykish 6y ago
  You forgot about `user-select` * { user-select: none } now entire page is for display. What is content and what is meta decided by consumer, author can guide, medium creates obstacles. <blockquote> does not copy quotes. Some pages present link as <a href=foo>foo</a>, it would be nice to use a::after { content: '(' attr(href) ')' } but it is not selectable. A lot of pages present anchor as <a>¶</a> on hover, can't be done with CSS. What is missing is *::before, *::after { user-select: text } Nope, it does not work. Best tool so far is XSLT, I've written prototype that mimics CSS syntax quote { content-before: '"' content-after: '"' } a { content-after: '(' @href ')' } h2 { content-before: <a href=@href>¶</a> } Anyone interested?