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im styling text in a twitter widget so i dont have control of the markup, just the css. i was hoping to give the text within a `
` (that is within a div class) a background color on the text but not have the background color run across the entire paragraph element, just behind the text like a highlight . I normally would throw a span in there, but was hoping i could achieve this with just css. any ideas?
Basically I don’t think you can target content within a ‘final’ element.
The ‘p’, yes, but other than that, I don’t think so.
Maybe you can target ‘whitespace’ but I’ve never heard of it being done.
You can’t do this. The regular way is to use a span. It’s meant to.
With some pseudo-selectors like :first-line, you can partially select some of the content, but not as you wish.
If your text is purely static, use a background image on the p element.
What happens with you type the tag in you're tweet?
Like if you tweeted "Today I went to the
Yes.
Oh how I wish we had :nth-line(n) But we don’t, at least for now.