“text-decoration” and the “:after” pseudo-element, revisited

Question

I\'m re-asking this question because its answers didn\'t work in my case.

In my stylesheet for printed media I want to append the url after every link using the

Answer 1

I had the same problem and my solution was to set height and overflow:hidden

http://jsfiddle.net/r45L7/

a {
    text-decoration: underline;
}

a:after {
    content: "»";
    display: inline-block;
    text-decoration: none;
    height:16px;
    overflow: hidden;
    padding-left: 10px;
}

It works on IE, FF, Chrome.

Answer 2

1)

:after{
    position: absolute;
}

is not perfect, because element content will not wrap

2)

:after{
    display: inline-block;
}

is not perfect, because sometimes we wish after content should always wrap with last word of element content.

For now, I could not find find a perfect solution fits all 3 conditions(1. content could auto-wrap if it's too long 2.after content should wrap with element content, which means after content should not occupy single by it self. 3.text-decoration should only apply on element condition not apply to after content.) I thoughts for now is using other way to mimic text-decoration.

Answer 3

What I do is I add a span inside the a element, like this :

<a href="http://foo.bar"><span>link text</span></a>

Then in your CSS file :

a::after{
  content:" <" attr(href) "> ";
  color: #000000;
}

a {
  text-decoration:none;
}

a span {
  text-decoration: underline;
}

Answer 4

IE8's implementation of the :before and :after pseudo-elements is incorrect. Firefox, Chrome and Safari all implement it according to the CSS 2.1 specification.

5.12.3 The :before and :after pseudo-elements

The ':before' and ':after' pseudo-elements can be used to insert generated content before or after an element's content. They are explained in the section on generated text.

...

Cascading Style Sheets Level 2 Revision 1 (CSS 2.1) Specification

The specification indicates that the content should be inserted before or after the element's content, not the element (i.e. <element>content:before content content:after</element>). Thus in Firefox and Chrome the text-decoration you're encountering is not on the inserted content but rather on the parent anchor element that contains the inserted content.

I think your options are going to be using the background-image/padding technique suggested in your previous question or possibly wrapping your anchor elements in span elements and applying the pseudo-elements to the span elements instead.

Answer 5

You can autoselect links to pdf-files by:

a[href$=".pdf"]:after { content: ... }

IE less than 8 can be enabled to work properly by implementing this link in the head of the html-file:

<!--[if lt IE 8]><script src="http://ie7-js.googlecode.com/svn/version/2.0(beta3)/IE8.js" type="text/javascript"></script><![endif]-->

It works also very good in al IE versions when you use the after-before-content-thing for dosplaying quotation marks.

Answer 6

Position the content absolutely as follow:

a {
    position: relative;
    margin: 0 .5em;
    font-weight: bold;
    color: #c00;
}
a:before,
a:after {
    position: absolute;
    color: #000;
}
a:before {
    content: '<';
    left: -.5em;
}
a:after {
    content: '>';
    right: -.5em;
}

This works for me in Firefox 3.6, not tested in any other browsers though, best of luck!