- From: Gregory Martin Pfeil <pfeilgm@jmu.edu>
- Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 14:26:18 -0400 (EDT)
- To: www-html@atomism.demon.co.uk
- cc: www-html@w3.org
On Thu, 14 Aug 1997 www-html@atomism.demon.co.uk wrote:
> 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?
This is fairly simple to do with style sheets. Use the pseudo-element,
first-letter, e.g.:
P:first-letter {font-size: 500%}
Of course, I would suggest a smaller value than 500%, but that is what
your ASCII example uses.
--
Gregory Martin Pfeil Programmer-Composer-Guitarist
mailto:pfeilgm@jmu.edu http://falcon.jmu.edu/~pfeilgm/
Received on Thursday, 14 August 1997 14:26:26 UTC