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External link icons in CSS

Stuart has put together a nice demonstration of how Mozilla’s CSS3 selectors can be used to automatically add icons to external links, in response to Mark Pilgrim’s guide to achieving the same effect using Moveable Type macros.

Posted 31st August 2002 at 2:10 pm

This is External link icons in CSS by Simon Willison, posted on 31st August 2002.

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  1. Given taht Moz is the only browser that the CSS version works in atm, could this be done using javascript instead? It seems silly to do some server-side processing for unimportant stuff like this...

    Peter - 2nd September 2002 07:37 - #

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