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External link icons in CSS

31st August 2002

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 · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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