<!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>