Sent by Dougal Campbell on 2 April 2002 15:03
On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Stephanie Sullivan wrote:
> But it's not simple for me... :( Question from a relative newbie... I want a
> lovely drop cap with two lines of text to the right of it and then third
> (and rest) to go under it...
>
> I tried this:
>
> .dropcap {
> font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
> font-size: 300%;
> font-weight: bold;
> color:#502778;
> float:left
> }
>
> With that I get a big drop cap with the text after it set to the baseline...
> so I only get one line of text instead of two stacked up... Am I making
> sense? :-P
Works for me. Which browsers/os are you testing? I checked IE5.5, NS6.1,
and Moz 0.9.8 under WinNT. There are slight differences between how IE
and Moz/NS6 render it, but they seem acceptable, for the most part.
Have you tried using the first-letter pseudo-element?
p:first-letter {
font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
font-size: 300%;
font-weight: bold;
color:#502778;
float:left;
}
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