Re: style sheets, dropped capitals and floatimg text

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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Received on Thursday, 14 August 1997 12:27:15 UTC