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CSS

Posted by Ashish Mehra
Ashish Mehra
Courses Plus Student 589 Points

can any one tell me how this code works

span:after{
  position:absolute;
  border:solid transparent;
  content:" ";
  height:0;
  width:0;
  right:100%;
  top:50%;
  border-right-color:#222;
  border-width:8px;
  margin-top:-8px;
  }

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,732 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,732 Points

There must be some special HTML and/or other CSS to go with this, it's hard to tell exactly what it will look like without it.

But by having all the borders transparent except the right one, this will produce a little almost-black triangle pointing left. I'm guessing the span itself might have position: relative, which would cause the little triangle to appear just left of the span.