Whitespace, punctuation and :first-letter

• From: Simon Fraser <smfr@me.com>
• Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2010 20:00:58 -0700
• To: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
• Message-id: <CA820217-FE2D-482F-8790-FF2969CAFB4E@me.com>

I'm trying to fix some WebKit issues around :first-letter. The spec <http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/selector.html#first-letter> is not clear about how punctuation and whitespace interact, and there does not seem to be interop in this area. For example, with the following content:

<style type="text/css">
div:first-letter { color: green; }
</style>

<div>( T)est</div>

In Safari, the ( and T are green.
In Opera, the ( is green.
In Firefox, nothing is green.

Simon

Received on Wednesday, 6 October 2010 03:01:34 UTC