{"id":103,"date":"2019-07-30T12:53:32","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T12:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blindemanwebsites.com\/today-i-learned\/?p=103"},"modified":"2019-07-30T19:50:26","modified_gmt":"2019-07-30T19:50:26","slug":"images-and-before-after","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blindemanwebsites.com\/today-i-learned\/2019\/images-and-before-after\/","title":{"rendered":"Images and ::before & ::after"},"content":{"rendered":"

I learned today that the pseudo-elements ::before and ::after don’t work with the img-element. As I went looking I found out that the CSS spec is very unclear on this. It has to do with the fact that <img> doesn’t have its actual content on the page\/in the HTML, it pulls it in from elsewhere. This makes it a replaced element. Form elements are also replaced elements. It is also an empty element, like <br> and <hr>.<\/p>\n

Rule of thumb (for now) seems to be that empty elements can’t have ::before and ::after applied with the exception of <hr>.
\nOther empty elements with which ::before and ::after wont work (may) include form elements and <br>.<\/p>\n

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Photo by Jack Krasky<\/a> on Unsplash<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I learned today that the pseudo-elements ::before and ::after don’t work with the img-element. As I went looking I found out that the CSS spec is very unclear on this. It has to do with the fact that <img> doesn’t have its actual content on the page\/in the HTML, it pulls it in from elsewhere. … <\/p>\n

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