Putting extra text around links

[Shattered Plastic]

I just wondered if it was possible to put letters or symbols around every link in a CSS code without having to put it in seperately for each one.
Like this:

.:link:.
-|link|-

Here is the current code:

<style type="text/css">
td,p,body,div{font:8pt verdana;color:black;}
a,a:link,a:active,a:visited{color:black;font:8pt verdana;text-decoration:none}
a:hover{font:8pt verdana; color:blue;}
    </style>

[ddadmin]

Unfortunately no, as the purpose of CSS is to style a HTML element, not manipulate (add/delete) content...

[Shattered Plastic]

oh, ok