p:first-line font-size:18px;
<?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-line{
font-size:18px;
font-weight:bold;}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<p>The first line of this paragraph should be displayed in a larger, bold version of the font compared with the text in the rest of the paragraph. This technique is commonly used in articles, poetry and hymns. </p>
</body>
</html>
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