Sent by Chris Casciano on 24 January 2002 23:11
on 1/24/02 11:06 PM, Eric A. Meyer at [EMAIL-REMOVED] wrote:
> 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
> 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.
Hmm... The linked file is a very simple test case containing only the styles
I specified in my earlier email. Moz 0.9.7 renders it as I expected on both
my machines here. And in fact the css doc is being served as text css:
% curl -I http://placenamehere.com/css-discuss/psuedo_test.css
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 04:26:16 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.6 (Unix)
Last-Modified: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 00:02:40 GMT
ETag: "f20a43-b3-3c50a0a0"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 179
Content-Type: text/css
But in any case I've posted clips of the Moz 0.9.7/PC and IE6/PC behavior
for the :first-letter test here:
http://placenamehere.com/css-discuss/psuedo_test.gif
In the mozilla example the first letter of the paragraph is taking on the
style of the paragraph (which in turn took the size from "*") with the
additional rule of size of 30px. IE however is looking to the "*"
declaration directly and ignoring the color and font-family changes applied
to the paragraph.
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