Re: [css-inline] Summary of drop-caps/initial-letters discussion

On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 6:47 PM, Christoph Päper <
christoph.paeper@crissov.de> wrote:

> fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>:
>
> > initial-letters: normal | <integer>{1,2}
> > applies to ::first-letter or the inline-level first child of a block
> container
>
> Just to be sure I understand the implications correctly:
>
>   <p>This paragraph has a <x>span inside</x> that has
>      special styling for its initial letters.</p>
>
> with
>
>   x {display: inline; initial-letters: 2;}
>
> or, if inherited,
>
>   p {display: block;  initial-letters: 2;}
>
> would make “span inside” (or just ‘s’ and ‘i’?) span two lines,
> despite being in the horizontal middle of the line, whereas
>

We're trying to avoid the difficulties inherent in applying this property
in the middle of lines, hence the restriction to this only applying to
either ::first-letter pseudo-element, or something that's the first child
of the block. In your case, x is not the first child of p, so nothing would
happen.

  x ::first-letter   {initial-letters: 2;}
>
> would make only the ‘s’ bleed downwards,
> but usually one would of course do
>

Since the x is not a block container, this doesn't work.


>   p ::first-letter   {initial-letters: 2;}
>
> to make the paragraph-initial ‘T’ two lines high.
>

Yes.

Regards,

Dave