p:first-letter font-size:32px; font-weight:bold;
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title>CSS Example</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> <style type='text/css'> p { font-family:arial; font-size:12px; width:300px; } p:first-letter{ font-size:32px; font-weight:bold; } </style> </head> <body> <p>The first letter of this paragraph. </p> </body> </html>