How to add text or characters using CSS (no javascript)?

Question

Well it should work in IE, i know IE doesnt support content property anything other that?

Answer 1

Short of pictures of text — no.

Answer 2

The only option is the the content property:

The content property is used with the :before and :after pseudo-elements, to insert generated content.

But as you point out, this is part of CSS 3 and is not supported by IE. In the meantime you will need to compensate by using JavaScript.

Answer 3

You could try using IE8.js to fix content, which might do the trick. If not, then there's nothing you can do besides background-image's with text

Answer 4

The only way is JavaScript, or CSS3.

Maybe you could tell us what you need to do - then we can help.

Why can't you do it with js?