I was checking on ff 1.5. Here's the code to test: <html><head> <style> p:first-letter{ color:red; } </style> </head>
<body> <p>test</p> <p>*test</p> <p>***test</p> <p> test</p> </body> </html> The best solution is to use the :before pseudo selector as Mr Baron pointed out but my corp is an IE only shop. :( On 2/21/06, David Hucklesby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Vinson Gracia wrote: > > > > I thought I was being clever by using the first-letter pseudo selector > > to style my required field asterisk without any extra code but firefox > > rained on my parade. > > On which version of Firefox does this not work? I have an example of > using :first-letter to color a "heart" entity - admittedly generated > content, but applied *after* generating (for the sake of other browsers). > > Here's the example, still working on FF 1.0.5.1 - > <http://localhost/sandbox/hearts.html> > > Do you have a URL we could look at? > > Cordially, > David > -- > David Hucklesby, on 2/21/2006 > <http://www.hucklesby.com/> > -- > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/