单击a：之前如何删除某些内容？

Question

是否可以通过点击:before？

来关闭somenthing

somenthing like

HTML

<div class="a">
 //here comes the before i'd like to click for example a fontawesome icon
 ::before
</div>

JQUERY

$('.a:before').click(function(){
 $(this).remove();
});