CSS literal text selector?

[DreamThrall]

Does anyone know if there's a selector to select literal text inside an element? For example:

<div>literaltext [list][*]blah blah[/list]

How would I go about selecting the "literaltext" content from the above example? By the way, I can't change the actual structure of the html in this case. This needs to work cross-browser as well. Thanks!

 

[mindless_moder]

wont that be the base case ? , i.e if you define selectors for the list and other tags then any text that is outside its own tags will inherit the default div formatting.

 

[mindless_moder]

hey , dont mean to bump this ... but was i on the right track ?.

 

[DreamThrall]

well yes, but i needed to select the literal text independent of the div, which i've subsequently found out is impossible. thanks for the response though