<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <!-- Any copyright is dedicated to the Public Domain. http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ --><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>CSS Test: Test the use of variable references in the 'content' property.</title> <link href="mailto:cam@mcc.id.au" rel="author" title="Cameron McCormack" /> <link href="http://www.w3.org/TR/css-variables-1/#using-variables" rel="help" /> <link href="reference/variable-reference-12-ref.xht" rel="match" /> <style> :root { --a: "hello"; --b: "there"; } #a:before { content: var(--a) " " var(--b); } </style> </head><body><p>The words "hello there" must appear below:</p> <p id="a"></p> </body></html>