Is there a CSS selector for text nodes?

Question

What I would like to do (not in IE obviously) is:

p:not(.list):last-child + :text {
  margin-bottom: 10px;
}

Which would give a text node a

Answer 1

You cannot target text nodes with CSS. I'm with you; I wish you could... but you can't :(

If you don't wrap the text node in a like @Jacob suggests, you could instead give the surrounding element padding as opposed to margin:

HTML

The text node!

CSS

p#theParagraph
{
    border: 1px solid red;
    padding-bottom: 10px;
}