On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, Ingo Chao wrote:
> No good idea. Maybe:
>
> p { margin: 0; text-indent: 0; }
>
> p:first-letter { padding-left: 1em; }
I'd love to see your good ideas if you don't count this as good!
Looks like a perfect solution to me. Removes the problem both on IE 6 and
IE 7, and setting left padding for the first letter instead of text-indent
isn't even a hack, just an alternative (and perhaps more natural) way of
doing things.
In theory, the :first-letter pseudo-element is defined as referring to the
first _letter_, so one might be worried about the situation where a
paragraph starts with a non-letter character like a digit or parenthesis.
However, the CSS 2.1 draft (i.e., the thing closest to a de facto standard
we have) says: "The ':first-letter' also applies if the first letter is in
fact a digit, e.g., the "6" in "67 million dollars is a lot of money.""
And it probably _wants_ to say that the pseudo-element denotes the first
non-whitespace _character_, and this is how browsers take it.
> IE6 needs the blank before the left curly bracket after the :first-x
> selector.
Oh. Yes, so it seems. Thanks for this warning, too!
--
Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
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