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How to use html entities in a css pseudo element
You can't use html entities in a css pseudo element, because it inserts the ampersand and everything :
a:before { content: ''; }
In order to get it to work, you have to use the unicode hex values, which are stupid hard to figure out:
a:before { content: '\E139'; }
I had to use this unicode code converter to get the proper codepoints, but it would be super awesome if you provided them to begin with along with the html entities.
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