Is it possible to access the text of an anchor tag using CSS?

Alan Bertil

Below is my HTML

<a href="/content/testsite/en_gb/home/acis.html" class="">Branding</a>

Is it possible to access the text of an anchor tag using CSS? I want something like this? The html is dynamically generated so please don't mention having an id or having any classes.

a[text='Branding']
{
}
Fronto

People have already told you that you can't select text in CSS . But I think there are some workarounds. I don't know what you're trying to do, it's probably a bad thing, but if I were you, I'd take this bad practice :

/*First you hide the text*/
a {
   font-size: 0; /* hide text */
   text-decoration: none !important; /* get rid of that awful underline */
}
/* then you insert a new element using :before */
a:before {
    content: 'Branding'; /* This is the text you want for the new element */
    color: #333;
    font-size: 15px; /* Bring back the text inside the anchor for this new element */
    font: 24px sans-serif;
}

Fiddle : http://jsfiddle.net/tsu7z546/ _

If you want to try jQuery, do the following:

$(document).ready(function(){

    var brandingAnchor = $('a:contains("Branding")');

    brandingAnchor.hide();
});

remember! Every time you write jQuery code, you must have called the jQuery library on the page, like this:

<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <title>Document</title>
</head>

<body>

</body>

<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.4/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script>
    //Your jQuery code goes HERE, just below the library

$(document).ready(function(){

    var brandingAnchor = $('a:contains("Branding")');

    brandingAnchor.hide();
});

</script>

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