689088 - CSS Content support (all elements)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 215083

(Core :: CSS Parsing and Computation, defect)

Description

[Alexei]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/535.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/14.0.835.186 Safari/535.1

Steps to reproduce:

I beg to add support for CSS content not only for the pseudo element: after and: before, but for all elements.
I beg you, do not dispose of this bug, you have already burned, but do not have fixed over 1000 bugs.

Comment 1

[Mardeg]

A somewhat sufficient workaround would be to have any element as the background content for any other element.
See https://developer.mozilla.org/en/CSS/-moz-element

Comment 2

[Cork]

I would say its a won't fix as it would be really confusing rules:

If normal rules had content, what should happen to the original content?
  Should the html content be replaced?
  Should the css only be used if there's no html content?
  Should both be put in the element (contrary to :after and :before) and you would have text on text?

:after and :before doesn't have the second problem as they define how its meant to relate to the original content.

But I'm going to leave it up to the a driver to decide.

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Cork, that would all be handled by the spec, assuming it ever ends up actually getting finalized....

Comment 4

[Alexei]

I asked - do not burn!

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Well, don't file a bug that's an exact duplicate of an existing bug... ;)