Changing content of the element with pseudo-element</a></h1> </div> <div class="grid fw-wrap pb8 mb16 bb bc-black-075"> <div class="grid--cell ws-nowrap mr16 mb8" title="2016-01-12 19:07:53Z"> <span class="fc-light mr2">Asked</span> <time itemprop="dateCreated" datetime="2016-09-24T12:03:35.250" class="fromnow">Sep 24 '16 at 12:03</time> </div> <div class="grid--cell ws-nowrap mr16 mb8"> <span class="fc-light mr2">Active</span> <time class="fromnow" title="2016-09-24T15:45:15.243" datetime="2016-09-24T15:45:15.243">Sep 24 '16 at 15:45</a> </div> <div class="grid--cell ws-nowrap mb8" title="Viewed 807 times"> <span class="fc-light mr2">Viewed</span> 807 times </div> </div> <div id="mainbar" role="main" aria-label="questions and answers"> <div id="question" class="question" data-questionid="39676130" data-ownerid="6874433" data-score="0"> <div class="post-layout"> <div class="votecell post-layout--left"> <div class="js-voting-container grid jc-center fd-column ai-stretch gs4 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applying 'content' attribute to selection.</p> <h1>Problem</h1> <p>I have a webpage:</p> <pre><code><html> <head> <title>Some title</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="stylesheet.css"> </head> <body> <p>Some paragraph</p> </body> </html> </code></pre> <p>and the css stylesheet:</p> <pre><code>title::before { content: "Text"; } p::before { content: "Text"; } </code></pre> <p>I can't seem to be able to change content of the html 'title' element this way with css style, but it works with 'p' element.</p> <p>I know there is good javascript libraries with good functions which can handle this easily, but i want to apply these changes to external webpage served in my webbrowser with custom userstyle.css.</p> <p>Is it possible?</p></div> <div class="mt24 mb12"> <div class="post-taglist grid gs4 gsy fd-column"> <div class="grid ps-relative"> <a href="../../questions/tagged/html" class="post-tag js-gps-track" title="show questions tagged 'html'" rel="tag">html</a> <a 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You will find that it's already hidden by default. You can Change the content by jQuery. $('title').text('you text here');</p></div> <div class="mb0"> <div class="mt16 grid gs8 gsy fw-wrap jc-end ai-start pt4 mb16"> <div class="grid--cell mr16 fl1 w96"></div> <div class="post-signature grid--cell"> <div class="s-user-card s-user-card"> <time class="s-user-card--time" datetime="answered Sep 24 '16 at 15:45">answered Sep 24 '16 at 15:45</time> <a href="../../users/4182629/amin-charoliya" class="s-avatar s-avatar32 s-user-card--avatar"> <img class="s-avatar--image" src="../../users/profiles/4182629.webp" data-jdenticon-width="32" data-jdenticon-height="32" data-jdenticon-value="Amin charoliya" /> </a> <div class="s-user-card--info"> <a href="../../users/4182629/amin-charoliya" class="s-user-card--link">Amin charoliya</a> <ul class="s-user-card--awards"> <li class="s-user-card--rep" title="reputation score">566</li> <li class="s-award-bling s-award-blinggold" title="1 gold badge">1</li> <li class="s-award-bling s-award-blingsilver" title="5 silver badge">5</li> <li class="s-award-bling s-award-blingbronze" title="15 bronze badge">15</li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="post-layout--right js-post-comments-component"> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="sidebar" class="show-votes" role="complementary" aria-label="sidebar"> <div class="module sidebar-linked"> <h4 id="h-linked">Linked</h4> <div class="linked"> <div class="spacer"> <a title="Vote score (upvotes - downvotes)"><div class="answer-votes answered-accepted default">0</div></a> <a href="../../questions/66926768/how-to-capture-document-title-using-css-string-set" class="question-hyperlink">How to capture document title using CSS string-set</a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <script src="../../static/js/stack-icons.js"></script> <script src="../../static/js/fromnow.js"></script> </body> </html>