This drop cap is lowered without affecting the height of the line.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title></title> <style type="text/css" media="Screen"> * .myDrop { float: left; position: relative; top: -0.25em; margin-left: -3px; margin-right: 3px; margin-bottom: -0.6em; font-size: 80px; } </style> </head> <body> <span class="myDrop">F</span>loated Drop Cap. </body> </html>