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First Line and Letter

  
<!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" lang="en">
<head>
<title>HTML/XHTML:  &raquo; First Line and Letter</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />

<style type="text/css">
p:first-line {background-color: yellow;}
p:first-letter {color: red; font-size: 150%;}
</style>

</head>
<body>

<div class="content">
  <p>CSS selectors can be used to select elements in a variety
  of interesting ways. This is some text to fill up the paragraph.
  This is only text to fill up this paragraph. This should be
  enough text to make this paragraph.</p>
  <p>CSS selectors can be used to select elements in a variety
  of interesting ways. This is some text to fill up the paragraph.
  This is only text to fill up this paragraph. This should be
  enough text to make this paragraph.</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>

   
    
  








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