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

The content property only works for :before and :after to prepend or append content to said nodes, like so:

.email-address:before {
  content : "Email address: ";
}

  
myemail@gmail.com

The output would be

• Email address: myemail@gmail.com