HTML special characters in CSS “content” attribute

Question

I\'m trying to add content to something before an item using the CSS :before + content: fields. I want to insert a checkmark (☑), BUT if I use that in the content opti

Answer 1

Use the checkbox character literally in your CSS rule instead of the encoding -

#target:before {
    content: "☑";
}

See: http://jsfiddle.net/e3Wt2/