Sent by Eric A. Meyer on 24 January 2002 23:11
At 19:26 -0500 1/24/02, Chris Casciano wrote:
>Instead of the expected result - the first letter of the paragraph being
>blue, 40px & Georgia - I ended up with a 40px black Arial first letter. A
>built example can be found here:
>
>http://placenamehere.com/css-discuss/psuedo_test.html
>
>Any thoughts on the matter? Does anyone out there think this is anything
>more then a bug in IE6?
It seems like a bug in IE6, but I'm not entirely certain yet--
could you send me a snapshot of the behavior offlist? Porter's
corrective e-mail is correct; the '*' rule does NOT apply to the
pseudo-element because only element can be selected. Note I don't
say "styled," I say "selected." For example, the selector
'p#test:first-line' selects a paragraph element with an 'id' of
'test', and then causes only its first line to be styled. But it's
the element that is selected.
I loaded up your test page in NS6.2.1 and discovered very little
styling. Is your server set to hand over .css files as text/css or
text/plain? It makes a difference when the page is in "strict" mode,
as yours probably is thanks to its XHTML DOCTYPE.
--
Eric A. Meyer (http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/), List Mom
"CSS is much too interesting and elegant to be not taken seriously."
-- Martina Kosloff
