- From: Jordan Reiter <jreiter@mail.slc.edu>
- Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 12:27:08 -0400
- To: www-html@atomism.demon.co.uk, www-html@w3.org
At 4:01 PM -0000 8/14/97, www-html@atomism.demon.co.uk wrote:
>Hi
>
>I'm trying to get this to work:
> _______
>[__ __] HIS SEEMS to be very difficult
> [] to achieve using style sheets.
> [] I've tried floating text but
> [] nothing seems to happen in both
> [] MSIE 4 and Netscape 4.01. Does
>anyone know how to create a dropped
>capital at the start of a paragraph with
>the rest of the paragraph wrapping
>around it?
I can't remember the exact term for it, but the first letter of a paragraph
can be acted on StyleSheet-wise. Here's the code, which, incidentally,
isn't supported widely (sorry). Anyone out there who sees a mistake in the
code, please correct.
P:first-letter { size: xx-large; float: left }
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