Would the :first-letter pseudo class work?
Kevin
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Lesley Lutomski
<c...@islaywebdesign.co.uk>wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a site which uses drop caps at the start of some pages. The code
> for this is taken more or less straight out of Dan Cederholm's "Web
> Standards Solutions", apart from the font-family line.
>
> <span class="drop">A</span>
>
> .drop {float: left;
> font-size: 300%;
> line-height: 1em;
> margin: 4px 10px 0px 0;
> padding: 4px 10px;
> border: 2px solid #3F006F;
> font-family: "ChromaSSK", Georgia, "Times New Roman", "Nimbus Roman
> No9 L", serif;
> background-color: #DDDDFF;
> }
>
> In FF4 on Linux, the drop cap doesn't display when the first font in the
> list is not available, even though the other fonts are all installed. The
> coloured background and the border are displayed, but the letter itself is
> missing. Chromium and Epiphany both display it using the first available
> font. I can't test in anything else just now.
>
> Any ideas why this is happening? I'm probably missing something obvious.
> HTML & CSS both validate.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Lesley
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