B.85. pause

Pauses are used by aural (speaking) browsers for the visually impaired to provide clues to document structure. This is a shorthand property that lets you specify the pause-before and pause-after properties with a single property declaration.

Inherited: No

See also: Section B.86pause-before, Section B.86pause-after, Section B.104speech-rate

B.85.1. Value

One or two time values, each of which is a floating-point number followed by either s (seconds) or ms (milliseconds), or a percentage of the average word time (which is 1/rate, where rate is the value of the element's spech-rate property).

If one value is specified, it is applied to both the pause-before and pause-after properties. If two values are specified, the first is applied ...

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