The above answer was copied

Megan — Wed, 16 Sep 2015 14:08:25 +0000

The above answer was copied from this Stack Overflow post:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23569441/is-it-possible-to-apply-css-...

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This technique, of course, isn't actually applying the CSS to half the character, it's duplicating the character using a pseudo-element and positioning it over top of the original. But it looks like it does the job

Yes it is possible to apply

rachi — Wed, 16 Sep 2015 11:21:00 +0000

Yes it is possible to apply css to half of a character

.halfStyle {
position:relative;
display:inline-block;
width:1;
font-size:80px;
color: black;
overflow:hidden;
white-space: pre;
}

.halfStyle:before {
display:block;
z-index:1;
position:absolute;
top:0;
width: 50%;
content: attr(data-content);
overflow:hidden;
color: #f00;

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Not that I've ever come

Megan — Wed, 19 Aug 2015 13:25:05 +0000

Not that I've ever come across! What is the use case, just out of curiosity?