CSS adding linebreaks in the content of before and after

A quick tip. You can use \A and white-space to add linebreaks in the text of the CSS content property.

So, let's say you have a ::before or ::after pseudo element attached to a div element:

div::after {
  content: 'Just some text!';
}

div {
  border: 1px solid red;
  width: 100px;
  height: 100px;
}

If you want to add a linebreak after each word from the content property you can say:

div::after {
  content: 'Just \A some \A text!';
  white-space: pre;
}

Note that you will also need to set the white-space property to either pre or pre-wrap.

CSS adding linebreaks in the content of  before and after

Check out the codepen example here.

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