CSS pause-before Property
Description
The pause-before property defines a pause observed before speaking the element's content.
- Initial value
- Depends on user agent
- Applies to
- All elements
- Inherited
- No
- Media
- Aural
- Computed value
- Time
- Animatable
- No
- CSS Version
- CSS2, CSS3
- JavaScript syntax
- object.style.pauseBefore
Syntax
Formal syntax: <time> | none | x-weak | weak | medium | strong | x-strong pause-before: 25ms; pause-before: [value];
Values
- <time>Expresses the pause in absolute time units (seconds and milliseconds, e.g. "+3s", "250ms"). Only non-negative values are allowed.
- noneEquivalent to 0ms (no prosodic break is produced by the speech processor).
- x-weakExpresses the pause by the strength of the prosodic break in speech output. The exact time is implementation-dependent. The values indicate monotonically non-decreasing (conceptually increasing) break strength between elements.
- weakAs above
- mediumAs above
- strongAs above
- x-strongAs above
- inherit
Example
.class {
pause-before: 25ms;
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