Re: Pref - character for quoted text

[Dylan Schiemann]

Hi all,

I was just thinking about Daniel's comments and Stuart's reply, and it gave me
a few really rough ideas.  I could see a possibility of this working by
emulating the behavior for marker elements, with replaced content in either
the margin or padding. By default, you could have a repeat-x value for the
marker equal to the line height of the content contained inside.

Another possibility would be to extend background to include text characters,
which could base their repeat-x value on the line-height of their container.
So the style for an element would be something like:

p{padding-left:1.5em;background: char(">") repeat-x;}

or, if margins could have their own background, it could be:

p{margin-left: 1.5em char(">") repeat-x;}

While this doesn't explicity "add" the content to the document, it could give
the desired view.

-Dylan Schiemann
http://www.dylanschiemann.com/