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So I have this page that looks empty, because all the spans are empty. But, using their data status attribute, I can add the CSS attribute function to the content property to actually render those characters on the screen.
Normally you can't select individual characters in a string with CSS, but because these are rendered this way, I can use the nth child and nth-last-child selector to hide those selected characters, and AHH