| Tip 11 | Making Links Printable with :after and content |
CSS can style existing elements, but it can also inject content into a document using the :before and :after pseudoelements and the content property. There are a few cases where content generation with CSS makes sense, and the most obvious one is when appending the URL of a hyperlink next to the link’s text when a user prints the page. When you’re looking at a document on the screen, you can just hover over a link and see where it goes by looking at the status bar. However, when you look at a printout of a page, you have absolutely no idea where those links go.
AwesomeCo is working up a new page for its forms and policies, and one of the members of the redesign committee insists on printing ...
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