You don’t. You’ll need to put an element around it:
<?php if ( $content_source == 'excerpt' ) { ?>
<div class="excerpt">
<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
</div>
<?php } else { ?>
<div class="content">
<?php the_content(); ?>
</div>
<?php } ?>
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