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first-letter and :first-line Pseudo-Elements

  


<!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'>
    <head>
        <title>Pseudo-Element Selectors</title>
        <style rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>

p.quote:first-letter {
    background: darkblue;
    color: white;
    font: 55px "Monotype Corsiva";
    float: left;
    margin-right: 5px;
}
p.quote:first-line {
    font-weight: bold;
    letter-spacing: 3px;
}
p.byline {
    text-align: right;
    font-style: italic;
    font-size: 10px;
    border: none;
}
        
        </style>
    </head>
    <body>
        <p class='quote'>
            This is a test. This is a test. 
        </p>
        <p class='byline'>
            - Albert Einstein
        </p>
    </body>
</html>








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