HTML Utopia: Designing Without Tables Using CSS

B.86. pause-after, pause-before

Pauses are used by aural (speaking) browsers for the visually impaired to provide clues to document structure. pause-before and pause-after let you set the amount of time to pause before and after an element, respectively.

Inherited: No

See also: Section B.85pause, Section B.104speech-rate

B.86.1. Value

Each of these properties takes a time value, 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).

Initial value: Browser-specific

B.86.2. Compatibility

CSS Version: 2

Not supported by any currently-available browser.

B.86.3. Example

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