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Re:CSS-only plotting by bennettfeely on Thursday October 23, 2014 @08:15PM (#8501460)
Someday, but right now the support for using 'attr()' function in properties other than 'content' is very poor.
Re:CSS-only plotting by nness on Thursday October 23, 2014 @09:13PM (#8501645)
Correct, attr() for use with anything than the content property is unsupported by most browsers.

(https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/attr)