Hide Element, But Show CSS Generated Content

Hide element, but show CSS generated content

Clean Solution

You could use visibility: hidden, but with this solution, the hidden content will still take up space. If this doesn't matter to you, this is how you would do it:

span {
    visibility: hidden;
}

span:before {
    visibility: visible;
}

Hackish Alternative Solution

Another solution would be to set the font-size of the span ~~to zero~~* to a really small value. Advantage of this method: The hidden content won't take up any space. Drawback: You won't be able to use relative units like em or % for the font-size of the :before content.

span:before {
    content: "Lorem ";
    font-size: 16px;
    font-size: 1rem; /* Maintain relative font-size in browsers that support it */
    letter-spacing: normal;
    color: #000;
}

span {
    font-size: 1px;
    letter-spacing: -1px;
    color: transparent;
}

Example on jsfiddle.

Update (May 4, 2015): With CSS3, you can now use the rem (Root EM) unit to maintain relative font-sizes in the :before element. (Browser support.)

*A previous version of this post suggested setting the font size to zero. However, this does not work as desired in some browsers, because CSS does not define what behavior is expected when the font-size is set to zero. For cross-browser compatibility, use a small font size like mentioned above.

Hide certain content from a parent element but show child in CSS

You can use font-size to hide the text, then overwrite it for the child span elements like so:

.price {  font-size: 0px;}
.price span {  font-size: 16px;}

<p class="price">From: <span class="woocommerce-Price-amount amount"><span class="woocommerce-Price-currencySymbol">£</span>189.00</span></p>

show pseudo element but not parent element

You can stick to the "text-indent" method (or better the "Kellum Method") and use CSS positioning for the pseudo element:

li {
display:block;
position:relative;
text-indent: -100%;
white-space: nowrap;
overflow: hidden;
}
li:after {
content: "visible pseudo-element";
position:absolute;
right:0;
}

http://jsfiddle.net/Fiddel/aopteq8m/

In CSS use display:none on the element, but keep its :after

No, it is not possible.

Pseudo elements are rendered like children:

<span id="myspan">whatever<after></span>

And display:none hides the element including all children.

EDIT 1

JavaScript is your best option in my opinion. Even without jQuery changing text is not hard:

document.getElementById("myspan").innerHTML = "*";

Demo

EDIT 2

However, if you really want to do it with CSS, you can use negative text-indent to hide the text and relative positioning to show the asterisk:

#myspan {    
    text-indent: -9999px;
    display: block;
}

#myspan:before {
    content: '*';
    position: absolute;
    top: 0;
    left: 9999px;
}

Demo

How can I hide an element with css while still keeping it on the page?

There are three ways to hidden elements and keep the page position. You can get more information about between Normal flow and css style(ie: opcity, visibility) attribute relation.

visibility
opcity
transparent

$('div').click(function (){  alert(this.innerHTML)})

div{  border: 1px solid #000;}.one{  visibility:hidden;}.two{  opacity: 0;}.three{  background: transparent;  color: transparent;}

<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><script src="//code.jquery.com/jquery-2.1.1.min.js"></script>  <meta charset="utf-8">  <title>JS Bin</title></head><body>  1  <div class="one">visibility</div>  2  <div class="two">opticy</div>  3  <div class="three">transparent</div>  4</body></html>

Hide Element, But Show CSS Generated Content