CSS content property not displaying

Question

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 \"conten

Answer 1

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? :)