css - Hide text node in element, but not children

Question

I'm having a little trouble with CSS and can't seem to find a solution. I have this HTML

<div id="closelink">
  <a href="">Close</a>
  Click to close
</div>

Now I want to hide the text ?Click to close? only, without hiding neither the div, nor the link within it.

Can this be done?

Answer 1

The visibility attribute can be overriden on children elements, so you are able to do this:

<div id="closelink">
  <a href="">Close</a>
  Click to close
</div>

CSS:

#closelink {
    visibility:collapse;
}

#closelink a{
    visibility:visible;
}

And the result is this: http://jsfiddle.net/pavloschris/Vva84/