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Creating a drop cap using a CSS pseudo-element

  

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
  <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
  <title>Creating a drop cap using a CSS pseudo-element</title>
<style type="text/css" media="screen">

    
h1+p:first-letter {
    float: left;
    font-size: 3em;
    line-height: 1.0em;
    margin-top: -3px;
    margin-right: 0.15em;
}    
</style>
</head>
<body>
  <div id="wrapper">
    <h1>This is the header</h1>
    <p>this is a test. this is a test. this is a test. this is a test. </p>
  </div>
</body>
</html>








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