Set the parent class’s visibility to hidden or collapse. Set the child to visible. Something like this:
.parent>.child
{
visibility: visible;
}
.parent
{
visibility: hidden;
width: 0;
height: 0;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
Full example:
http://jsfiddle.net/pread13/h955D/153/
Edited with help from @n1kkou