Good point! I forgot to mention that I have to support IE5 as well, which doesn't support the first letter pseudo element, which is why I opted to use span instead.
My stats show that IE5 has dropped off in usage on our site considerably in the past 6 months though, so maybe I can get away with not writing rules for it. Ron > > This goes a bit off topic from the original post, but you can > change the > first letter of a page without a span. The p:first-letter works well, > and you are free to replace "p" with another definition. To get a bit > more complicated, you can also select the first "p" of the > page and then > the first letter of that "p", which would give you the > elasticity of no > extra classes. > > The w3school has a little bit more about it. > http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_pseudo_elements.asp > > > hope that helps. :) > > -----Original Message----- > The only place in the entire municipal site that I manage that I use a > span > is for doing drop caps at the beginning of a page of text. > >
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