On Jan 17, 2012, at 7:40 AM, Martin wrote: > I'm wondering if it'd be possible to style the first letter of a paragraph so > that it'd be 3-lines height (I mean generally bigger) as it was in old texts, > eg: > > > ____ > | irst letter of each paragraph should be > ----- as big as that. I don't know if that's possible > | but it'd be nice to know it. It'd look good on > my website. Thank you very much > > Would it require using pictures or css would do?
have a look at the ::first-letter pseudo-element http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-selectors/#first-letter something like this: p::first-letter { font-size: 3.2 em; line-height: .8em; font-weight: bold; } Philippe -- Philippe Wittenbergh http://l-c-n.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [css-d@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/