title: Can you use HTML entities in the CSS “content” property?
body: <p>I would like to use HTML entities in CSS, but it shows me the <code>&amp;bull;</code> instead.</p>
  
  <pre class="lang-css prettyprint-override"><code>.down:before{
      content:"&amp;bull; ";
      color:#f00;
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Also, why does the above code not work in IE? it does not show the before part at all.</p>