Select all elements before element with class?

Question

In CSS is it possible to select all elements before an element with a given class?

Example HTML:

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Answer 1

a {
  text-decoration: none;
  border-left: 1px solid black;
}

a.active, a.active ~ * {
  border: none;
}

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