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Styling First Letter And Line Using CSS

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First letter of any block level element can be styled using the ::first-letter selectors.

The following CSS properties can be used with the ::first-letter selector

  1. font
  2. color
  3. background
  4. margin
  5. padding
  6. border
  7. text-decoration
  8. vertical-align(float should be none)
  9. text-transform
  10. line-height
  11. clear
  12. float

First line of any block level element can be styled using the ::first-line selectors.

The following CSS properties can be used with the ::first-line selector.

  1. font properties
  2. color properties
  3. background properties
  4. word-spacing
  5. letter-spacing
  6. text-decoration
  7. vertical-align
  8. text-transform
  9. line-height
  10. clear

Remember that these selectors can only be applied to block level elements.

Narayan Prusty
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Narayan Prusty

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