CSS to select/style first word

Question

This one has me kind of stumped. I want to make the first word of all the paragraphs in my #content div at 14pt instead of the default for the paragraphs (12pt). Is there a

Answer 1

Same thing, with jQuery:

$('#links a').each(function(){
    var me = $(this);
    me.html( me.text().replace(/(^\w+)/,'$1') );
  });

or

$('#links a').each(function(){
    var me = $(this)
       , t = me.text().split(' ');
    me.html( ''+t.shift()+' '+t.join(' ') );
  });

(Via 'Wizzud' on the jQuery Mailing List)