jQuery and pseudo-elements

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You can’t. Content created by :after or :before is not part of the DOM and therefore cannot be selected or modified.

If you have a look at this example fiddle and inspect the DOM in Firebug or similar you will see that the pseudo-element is not present in the DOM tree.

A potential solution would be to apply a class to the element you want to change, and to style that class appropriately in CSS:

$("div").addClass("newClass");

See this fiddle for an example.

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