jQuery .click() event for CSS pseudoelement (:before/:after)?

I want to trigger a jQuery animation when content that I am inserting through the CSS pseudoelements :before: and :after is clicked. However, I'm not sure how to do t开发者_C百科his; my first guess, $(#id:before).click() didn't work. Is this part of jQuery's functionality? If so, how would I select the before/after content?

jQuery does not support the CSS :before and :after selectors. To select siblings, use .siblings() and then filter from there.

http://api.jquery.com/siblings/