Style certain characters with CSS

Question

I'm assuming it's not possible, but just in case it is or someone has a nice trick up their sleeves, is there a way to target certain characters using CSS?

For example make all letters z in paragraphs red, or in my particular case set vertical-align:sup on all 7 in elements marked with the class chord.

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16091469/style-certain-characters-with-css

Answer 1

That's not possible in CSS. Your only option would be first-letter and that's not going to cut it. Either use JavaScript or (as you stated in your comments), your server-side language.