Posted by Hans-Peter Diettrich on 06/16/07 15:10

Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:

>>>Why not? Can a CSS file not contain visible text?
>>
>>No, an external style sheet is just that, a Style Sheet, only
>>affecting presentation of the document's markup. The only time you
>>would see text from a stylesheet is in the case of the Content
>>property, used in conjunction with :before and :after
>>pseudo-elements.
>
>
> ...with the caveat that it will not work in the oft-used browser-like
> operating system component.
>
> #contentbox:after {
> content: "Copyright 2007. All rights reserved.";
> }
>
> Note you can't place any HTML in this content.

Thanks for all your answers :-)

Another idea: what about browser-plugins?

In general it might be a bad idea, to force users to install a plugin
before they can see a particular page - what if everybody would do that?
But in my current project the users would be happy, if they could extend
the browser capabilities as desired, by installing a plugin.

Concrete question: what's the task of a plugin, what makes the browser
activate it? Is a plugin related to a special object type, or what else?

DoDi

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