first-letter-000.xht

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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

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  <title>CSS Test: Selectors: The :first-letter pseudo-element</title>

  <link rel="author" title="Gabriele Romanato" href="mailto:gabriele.romanato@gmail.com" />

  <link rel="help" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/selector.html#first-letter" />

  <meta name="assert" content="Browsers should apply the rule only to the first letter of a block-level element"/>

<style type="text/css">

p:first-letter, div span {color: fuchsia; font-weight: bold; font-size: 1.8em;}

</style>

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<p>The first letter of this paragraph should be fuchsia, in a bold face and in a bigger font size (same as in the next block).</p>

<div><span>L</span>orem ipsum dolor.</div>

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