CSS set style to the parent of class="something" tag

I have this in my HTML file:

    
someText
    
otherText

Is there a way in CSS I can set the background of the PARENT of the class named something? In this case, the tag?

Here is my code:

Answer

At this point, no.

However, jQuery can do this quite easily.

$('.something').parent().css('//WHATEVER')

In the future, CSS4 will be adopting a subject selector, which would do what you need

$OL > LI:only-child

The $ would be used to select the parent or subject of a specific element.

http://www.w3.org/TR/selectors4/#subject