Help Finding CSS3 Docs

I cant find anything on w3c

[TellJane]

hello

im trying to find out how to take an attribute from an element and use it. kind of like this

<a href="link.html" title="title">a link</a>

I want to select the title and use it with :before

I think this is possible in css3 but cannot find the details at w3c, can anyone help me find what i need please?

thankyou very much

[ronin]

Try this:

[w3.org...]

[ronin]

Oh I see.
That's not quite what you want, is it?

If you combine CSS with Javascript you can probably achieve your desired result.

[Robin_reala]

XSLT is probably the natural next step up for this...

[TellJane]

thats probably a little too much work for such a small thing but thankyou

i was hoping to do somthing like this

<a href="link.html" title="the title">link</a>

a[title] { :before: <value of the title attribute>; }

but that doesnt seem possible to do easily, nevermind

thankyou again ronin & robin

[ronin]

I'm sure it would be possible with javascript.

My knowledge of js isn't up to much, but I'm positive you could use getElementById to turn a.title into a variable and then insert the variable into an a:before style using document.write or something...