Can I select only when there's no text around it?

Question

I would like to select anchor tags only when they\'re completely by themselves, that way I can make those look like buttons, without causing anchors within sentences to look lik

Answer 1

The simple answer is: no, you can't.

As explained here, here and here, there is no CSS selector that applies to the text nodes.

If you could use jQuery, take a look at the contains selector.