Adding characters before and after pseudo elements
In what seems like a lost episode of The Twilight Zone, a new property of CSS gives you the ability to add pseudo markup to your content. As strange as it may sound, there are a surprising number of use cases for this sort of styling. You may want to wrap a section of your content in quotes, and not have to deal with the extra coding trouble to put quotes in your content or theme file, which of course is a sensible thing to do. Or perhaps you want to join in with the popularity of Twitter and its hash-tag and the @ markups, you can precede your content with a # or @ symbol, just by using CSS markup, as shown in the following code line:
#I think, therefore I am#
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