Drop Caps in CSS

July 17th, 2009

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.

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