how do you get css to automatically itilize all text within and including brackets? ()

i'm tired of typing <i>(123)</i> all the time =(

I dont think thats possible. Unless maybe you use something like php after you've typed up your code and use str/preg_replace() to put the italic tags in.
Or if you use something like notepad++ then you can do a replace all.

You could just type "(123)" and then replace "(" with "<i>(" and replace ")" with ")</i>".

I don't think that CSS can automatically add the style to stuff in brackets, but it can add brackets. "<span class="awesome">123</span>" can be styled to show as "(123)", I can't remember how though.

Hi,

CSS selectors can match a tag, an element assigned a particular ID, an element assigned a particular class, and certain combinations thereof.

They can not match text patterns and it's difficult to think of a shorter tag than <i> (although I would suggest <em> instead) -- so you are already doing it the best way.