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using html entities via content — Octal literal in strict mode

See original GitHub issue

Version

1.0.5

Reproduction

http://www.webpackbin.com/VyBp2UlWz

Steps to reproduce

add &:after { content: '\2192'; } inside any line element

Expected Behavior

should output html arrow / entity, etc. →

Actual Behavior

parse error “Octal literal in strict mode …”

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 7 years ago
Comments:7 (5 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

31reactions

mxstbrcommented, Nov 12, 2016

Just need to escape the backslash. This works perfectly fine:

content: '\\2192';

That’s why we have a linter. 😉

2reactions

geelencommented, Nov 12, 2016

Ah what a pain! I don’t think there’s anything we can do about this, that’s just a fundamental difference from JS strings and CSS text. But it means you can’t quite “just copy-paste CSS!” which is what I was hoping for.

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