Select various elements that have X class - css

Question

Is it possible to alter X amount of elements (h1, p, span...) only if they have a specific class? I'm looking for something like this:
(elem1, elem2, elem3, elem4).class {
/* do things here */
}
Previously I tried with parentheses, curly and square brackets, and curly seemed to work but a quick glance to Firefox's console inspector seemed to tell me it ignored eveything between the start and end of the brackets, and of course worked, but would also apply to a, say, div instead of p, span, hX.
I know that doing...
elem1.class, elem2.class, elem3.class, elem4.class {
/* do things here */
}
would work, but I was looking for a less verbose syntax, because I'm a lazy ass.

Answer 1

Sorry, but it's not possible with pure css.
There's just no syntax for it.
e1.class, e2.class, e3.class is as short as it gets.
Of course, there are workarounds.
There's an extension called sass
With sass you could write
e1, e2, e3 {
&:hover {
/* Some stuff */
}
}
There's also any which works like
:any(e1, e2, e3).class
But it's only supported in some very recent browsers like firefox and chrome beta (I think, but I could be wrong)

Answer 2

Some new browser supports :any (-webkit-/-moz-), e.g.
:any(elem1, elem2, elem3 ...).yourclass {
color: green;
}
A demo (tested on firefox only): http://jsbin.com/IZozOdo/1/
Futhetr information on MDN
Otherwise consider the opportunity to use a CSS preprocessor like someone else suggested before

Answer 3

I must be misinterpreting the question, because why wouldn't you just use a class selector without a tagname like:
.myclass {
...
}
That selector matches:
p.myclass, span.myclass, a.myclass, etc
Just leave the tag name off of the selector.
EDIT
As pointed out to me in the comment on this answer - if you don't want to include certain tagnames, then you either a) use the verbose syntax that you don't like or b) use another class name on the elements you do want to target (http://jsfiddle.net/Mm9HX/) - it's what CSS classes are for.