A Whole Bunch of Amazing Stuff Pseudo Elements Can Do. It's pretty amazing what you can do with the pseudo elements :before and :after.
For every element on the page, you get two more free ones that you can do just about anything another HTML element could do. They unlock a whole lot of interesting design possibilities without negatively affecting the semantics of your markup. Here's a whole bunch of those amazing things. A roundup, if you will1. Give you multiple background canvases Because you can absolutely position pseudo elements relative to their parent element, you can think of them as two extra layers to play with for every element.
Expand the number of shapes you can make with a single element All of the shapes above any many more can be created with a single element, which makes them actually practical. Here's an example of a six-pointed star: Show URL's of links in printed web pages Clear floats Rather than insert extra non-semantic markup to clear the float on container elements, we can use a pseudo element to do that for us.
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