225884 - CSS content problem with \A

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 17646

(Core :: CSS Parsing and Computation, defect)

Description

[Entraygues Pierre-Alexandre]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6a) Gecko/20031029
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6a) Gecko/20031029

In the W3C page, http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/generate.html, section 12.2, you can
read this:
Authors may include newlines in the generated content by writing the "\A" escape
sequence in one of the strings after the 'content' property. This inserts a 
forced line break, similar to the BR element in HTML.
Mozilla ignores the \A.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.try this css, you can find it at http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/generate.html,
section 12.2:
H1:before {
    display: block;
    text-align: center;
    content: "chapter\A hoofdstuk\A chapitre"
}
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
inline the content.

Expected Results:  
write the content on 3 lines.

Comment 1

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

Please read CSS2.1 instead of CSS2; this changed. Thanks.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 17646 ***