CSS pause-before property

CSS pause-before Property

Description

The pause-before property defines the duration of a silent pause inserted before an element’s content.

Possible Values

  • **time** – Any time value (e.g., 300ms); the length of the pause will be the specified time.
  • **percentage** – The length of the pause is determined by the value of speech-rate . So, if there are two words per second (120 words per minute), pause-before: 50% will produce a 250ms pause, and if there is one word per second (60 words per minute), it will be 500ms.


DOM Syntax

object.style.pauseBefore = "300ms";

Applies to

All HTML elements

Example

Here is an example –

<style type = "text/css">
<!--
h2, h3, h4 {pause-before: 200%;}
ol li {pause-before: 1s;} 
--> 
</style> 

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