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I'm having some trouble implementing this approach. When I add your example into my CSS as is, I get a message about invalid CSS, "Bad token in selector: =".

That... that is awesome. We're actually only wanting to use this for internal project notes, so the conditional tagging is meant to exclude them from all publication targets. This sounds like it could be what we're looking for!

Thanks! I've submitted a feature request for this.

Just so I understand this, you want the topic (and not just the snippet) to show the revision date, correct? In other words, the revision date cannot be inside the snippet?
Correct. I just think it would look ugly and confusing to have a revision date visible in the snippet as otherwise snippets ...

Sorry for the confusion (and the delayed response).

Our publication schedule will have us pushing out updates to our content periodically, but not all content will be updated with each push. So I'm not sure the javascript approach will accurately reflect when the content was actually last revised ...

Thanks! Do you think there is a way I could modify that approach to use a date specified in the topic/snippet (such as a metadata tag)? We may well modify topics and snippets days ahead of publication, so as a practice, we use the publication date as the revision date.

For example, we like to include revision notes within our projects as an internal reference, but obviously these notes are never meant for publication. I've created a p,RevisionNotes CSS class so the notes will stand out when we are working on a project, and we have a Do Not Publish condition tag ...

I'm trying to do something a little crazy. In the projects we're putting together, we're putting a revision date on each topic. The other day it hit me that while we'd be updating that date each time we updated its topic, if a snippet used in a topic is updated after the last time we directly ...