In print often times designers use drop caps. It also makes an impact in web sites. In this tutorial we will show you how to use drop caps as a span element. We will use a class called .dropcap and apply it to the first letter of any paragraph we want styled. First we need to enter some text on an XHTML page and create a div then inside the div we insert some filler text. I named my div “filltext” but you can use whatever you want is really does not matter. The true magic rest within the class element .dropcap.
