One of the issues that I've been having is with drop caps, and in looking for a solution I found this page...
http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=DropCaps ...which recommends this code... p:first-letter { font: 2.5em/80% serif; float: left; padding: 0.2ex 0 0 0.2ex; margin: 0; overflow: visible; } It seems to work great (although I have yet to test in different browsers/platforms) and I'm hoping that will resolve the issue I was having (which had to do with the line height screwing up), but I don't know the history behind how this recommendation was arrived at, and so I'm just wondering if there's a particular reason why... a) 2.5em/80% is specified (ideally, for my own purposes, I'd like to change that to 2.6em/38%); and b) if there's a specific reason for the padding: 0.2ex 0 0 0.2ex; i.e. is there some reason why those couldn't just be all set to 0, or, alternatively, why I couldn't indent the first letter (and, in effect, the first line) a certain number of *px* (not ex)? Thanks in advance! Ron :) Woof?... http://www.Psymon.com Ach, du Leni!... http://www.Riefenstahl.org Hmm... http://www.Imaginary-Friend.ca ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
