Re: Pseudo-elements

>I'm trying to use a pseudo-element to produce a drop cap.
>
>>From http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS1-961217#the-first-letter-pseudo-element,
>I got the following code for the CSS file.
>
>P.initial  { font-size: 12pt; line-height: 12pt }
>P.initial:first-letter { font-size: 200%; float: left }
>
>and
>
><P class="initial">
>
>for the HTML.
>
>This won't work in either NN 4.6 or IE 4.0. Can anyone see an error, or
>help me figure out why?

   Because Netscape doesn't support :first-letter any more the MSIE does.
Check out the information here:

   http://www.webreview.com/pub/guides/style/mastergrid.html

If you want to see first-letter effects in action, you could download the
latest Gecko build from http://developer.netscape.com/ [1], but be warned
that it's alpha software and could very well eat your hard drive, explode
your monitor, and infect your motherboard with the Good Times virus.


[1] Specifically, http://developer.netscape.com/software/communicator/ngl/

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