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CSS - Formatting The First Letter Of A Paragraph
I read somewhere that we can format the first letter of each paragraph separately from the rest of it by CSS. Is possible and how?
Similar TutorialsDo you guys know if there is any way to change the style of only the first letter in a paragraph? For example: "The duck is dead and it can't come back to life." The letter T would get an effect such as switch of baseline, color, bgcolor and indentation. How is this possible without having to add a class to that particular first letter all the time. I am using this in a weblog system so it would need to be added in a template. Any help? Thanks! Why can't I get this to work on the first letter - #maincontent { float: right; top: 100px; width:638px; margin-left:132px; height:500px; clear:right; position: absolute; background-repeat: no-repeat; border: 0px solid purple; text-align:left; padding-top:0px; } #maincontent H1{ display:block; width:auto; border: 0px solid purple; text-align:center; margin-top:20px; margin-bottom:40px; color:#000066; font-size:16px; } #maincontent P{ width:80%; margin-left:10%; margin-right:10%; display:block; background-repeat: no-repeat; border: 0px solid purple; text-align:justify; padding-top:0px; color:#08207B; } #maincontent P img{ border: 2px solid #08207B; float:left; margin-right:5px; margin-bottom:0px; } #maincontent P:First-Letter{ color:red; font-size:24px; } Everything else works fine... My "sidebar" div isn't appearing, and neither is my paragraph inside my "mainContent" div. I have looked online and proofed it over and over, but can't seem to find the problem. Any help will be appreciated. CSS: Code: /*
Designed by: Derrick Zavarella
Date: 10/19/2010
Primary Colors:
#ffffff
#cbe86b (light green)
#f2e9e1 (light gray)
#1c140d (light black)
#cbe86b (lime green)
*/
html, body, div, span, applet, object, iframe,
h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p, blockquote, pre,
a, abbr, acronym, address, big, cite, code,
del, dfn, em, font, img, ins, kbd, q, s, samp,
small, strike, strong, sub, sup, tt, var,
b, u, i, center,
dl, dt, dd, ol, ul, li,
fieldset, form, label, legend,
table, caption, tbody, tfoot, thead, tr, th, td {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
border: 0;
outline: 0;
}
body{
font-size: 10px;
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
text-align: center;
}
#container{
width: 960px;
margin: auto;
}
#header{
width: 960px;
height: 135px;
background-image: url(images/header.png);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
margin-top: 20px;
}
#header h3, p{
display: none;
}
#nav{
width: 960px;
height: 20px;
background-color: #1c140d;
}
#nav ul{
float: left;
list-style: none;
margin-top: 3px;
}
#nav ul li{
display: inline;
margin-left: 5px;
}
#nav ul li a{
color: #f2e9e1;
text-decoration: none;
font-style: italic;
font-size: 10px;
}
#nav ul li a:hover{
color: #cbe86b;
}
#mainContent{
float: right;
width: 760px;
margin: 0px;
padding: 20px 0px 0px 0px;
}
#mainContent h2{
font-weight: normal;
font-style: italic;
font-size: 16px;
margin-top: 15px;
}
#mainContent p{
color: #f2e9e1;
}
#sidebar{
float: left;
width: 200px;
background-color: #e7e6e6;
}
HTML: Code: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta name="generator" content="HTML Tidy, see www.w3.org">
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content=
"text/html; charset=windows-1250">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" type="text/css">
<title>deBuhrs Seed & Feed</title>
</head>
<body>
<!--container begins here-->
<div id="container">
<!--header begins-->
<div id="header">
<h3>deBuhrs</h3>
<p>seed&feed</p>
</div>
<!--end header-->
<!--navigation begins-->
<div id="nav">
<ul id="menu">
<li><a href="index.html">home</a></li>
<li><a href="about.html">about</a></li>
<li><a href="products.html">products</a></li>
<li><a href="staff.html">staff</a></li>
<li><a href="contact.html">contact us</a></li>
<li><a href="affiliate.html">affiliate</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
<!--navigation ends--><!--mainContent begins-->
<div id="mainContent">
<h2>welcome to our new website!</h2>
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<h2>welcome to our new website!</h2>
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</div>
<!--end mainContent-->
<!--sidebar begins-->
<div id="sidebar">
</div>
<!--sidebar ends-->
<!--footer begins-->
<div id="footer">
</div>
<!--footer ends-->
</div>
<!--end container-->
</body>
</html>
Hey, i've got a contact form , and to the right of it i want the contact information. it's showing up in FF, but won't sit next to the form, it's going to the top, and doesn't even show up in IE...it's in the source, but not visible on the page. Here's the CSS; Code:
#formbox {
margin:10px 15px;
padding:15px;
border:1px solid #333;
width:40%;
font-size:8pt;
color:white;
}
.inputareas {
width:60%;
border:1px solid white;
background-color:#FBAB2B;
color:#333;
padding:1px;
margin:2px;
}
.submit {
border:1px solid white;
background-color:#FBAB2B;
color:#333;
margin:2px;
}
textarea {
font-size:8pt;
color:#333;
}
/* contact form paragraph */
.contactform {
border:1px solid #333;
width:35%;
font-size:8pt;
color:white;
position:relative;
left:55%;
z-index:20;
}
and the html; Code:
<p class="contactform"> <strong>Jack Rosenberg</strong><br> phone - 734-536-6088<br>
fax - 734-943-6039<br> email - jrosen@canamdesign.com<br><br> <strong>Pete
Komsic</strong><br> phone - 519-996-4673<br> email - pkomsic@canamdesign.com<br><br>
<strong>Scott Stein</strong><br> phone - 519-564-7175<br> email - sstein@canamdesign.com<br>
</p>
<div id="formbox">
<p>Please complete the following form, ensuring <b>ALL</b> fields are
complete.</p>
<!-- DISPLAYS ERRORS IF FORM IS INCOMPLETE -->
<?php
// Check to see if there has been any errors...
if(!empty($errors)) {
echo '<h3>Sorry there has been the following errors with your form :</h3>';
// Print the errors
echo "<div class=\"reglist\">";
echo "<ul>";
foreach($errors as $error) {
echo "<li>$error</li>";
}
echo "</ul>";
echo "</div>";
}
?>
<!-- DISPLAYS INFO IF FORM IS PROPERLY COMPLETED -->
<?php
// We only want to show the form if there has been no sucessful post
if(isset($post_sucess)) {
?>
<h3>The following information was sent to us by you:</h3>
<p><b>Contact Name:</b><br> <?php echo htmlentities ($_POST['name']); ?></p>
<p><b>Email:</b><br> <?php echo htmlentities ($_POST['email']); ?></p>
<p><b>Phone Number:</b><br> <?php echo htmlentities ($_POST['Phone']); ?></p>
<p><b>Inquiry:</b><br> <?php echo htmlentities ($_POST['inquiry']); ?></p>
<?php
} else { // Else show the form
?>
<form method="post" name="contactform" action="<?php $_POST['PHP_SELF'];?>">
<fieldset>
<legend>Name:<br></legend>
<input type="text" name="name" class="inputareas">
</fieldset>
<fieldset>
<legend>Email:<br></legend>
<input type="text" name="email" class="inputareas">
</fieldset>
<fieldset>
<legend>Phone Number:<br></legend>
<input type="text" name="phone" class="inputareas">
</fieldset>
<fieldset>
<legend>Inquiry:<br></legend>
<textarea rows="4" cols="30" class="inputareas" name="inquiry"></textarea>
</fieldset>
<fieldset>
<legend>
<input type="submit" value=".:Submit:." class="submit" name="submit">
</legend>
</fieldset>
</form>
<?php } ?>
</div>
<!-- CLOSES FORM BOX -->
thanks! Hi everyone. I would like to change the first letter of an h2 tag thats NOT in a span in the following chunk of code Code: <h2> <span class="subtleHeader">Saskatoon, Regina and Edmonton's</span><br> WEB DESIGN EXPERTS </h2> So in this example I want to change the W. yes I can change the dom, but I'm very very lazy and have this DOM structure in many places and was wondering if there was a css way to do it. Thanks I have used this in my CSS: p { margin-top: 0.5em;} But it renders differently in IE6 and Netscape 7. Is there a method to get this equal in both ? Thanks. Ok, I know IE is buggy, but this one has been driving me nuts for a while now... I'm applying borders to the edges of a div as shown by A list apart. Pretty simple stuff and I have it working perfectly under Mozilla Firefox. IE on the other hand isn't taking it so well (imagine that). The thing is, it's like nothing I've ever seen. I changed some positioning on the page one night and ever since then it's been doing it. The lower right hand image is just not rendering. What's worse, is if I add a border to the element it will displace things as a border should but the border itself doesn't show up! I don't know how I managed to muck things up this way, but I would appreciate a hand with it if anyone has any ideas. Here is the IE Screenshot and the Firefox Screenshot Also... The CSS and The HTML I have a bunch of text with nice formatting using paragraphs and I want to have a spacing between the paragraphs. I could easily do that by: Code: p { margin-bottom: 25px; }
But that will make it so the last paragraph to also have a margin like that, how can I make it so that the last paragraph have a bottom margin of 0? Just the last one in that bunch of text. Now that, this is dynamic content generated by WordPress. WordPress text is place using paragraphs but the last paragraph on each post also has a margin that shouldn't be there, or my current design of course. Is there a way around this? I'm a CSS newbie and this is my very first page that I have to make for a class. I can't figure out how to move my text below/center my headline. Every time it gets close (when I use margins) it jumps right to the bottom. P.S. If my code seems strange it's because I'm not really sure what I'm doing yet, so if you have any advice/better ways to achieve the same effect, please let me know HTML: <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8"/> <title>Welcome to Jolie Manor Bed and Breakfast</title> <link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon"/> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style3.css"/> </head> <body id="body" onload=""> <div id="wrap"> <img src="manor.jpeg" alt="Manor" class="floatleft" /> <h1> Jolie Manor <br /> <span class="smaller">Bed and Breakfast</span></h1> <p class="blocktext"> Escape to Jolie Manor, a luxury waterfront bed and breakfast on the eastern shore, where the Chesapeake Bay is aglow in warm sunsets, where towering oaks gently kiss the skyline and where you can let your body rest and your mind wander.</p> <div id="navcontainer"> <ul id="navlist"> <li id="active"><a href="#" id="current">Home Page</a></li> <li><a href="assignment32.html">Amenities</a></li> <li><a href="#">Rates</a></li> <li><a href="#">Local Features</a></li> <li><a href="#">Contact Us</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> </body> </html> CSS: body { width: 800px; height: 620px; background-color: rgb(171,214,212); } #wrap { width: 100%; height: 100%; background-image:url(book2.tif); background-repeat:no-repeat; background-position: center; } h1 { color: rgb(69,38,26); font-family: serif; margin-right: 150px; margin-top: 100px; margin-left: 0px; float: right; font-size: 2em; } .blocktext { margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; width: 10em; float: right; margin-top: 170px; margin-bottom: 0px; } p { color: rgb(69,38,26); font-family: serif; } .floatleft { margin-left: 60px; margin-top: 145px; } .smaller { font-size: .75em; } #navcontainer { background: #f0e7d7; margin: 0 auto; padding: 1em 0 0 0; font-family: georgia, serif; text-transform: lowercase; position:fixed; top:5px; } #navcontainer ul { padding: .2em 0; margin: 0; list-style-type: none; background-color: rgb(69,38,26); color: #FFF; width: 100%; font: normal 90% arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center; position:fixed; top:5px; } li { display: inline; } li a { text-decoration: none; background-color: rgb(69,38,26); color: #FFF; padding: .2em 1em; border-right: 1px solid #fff; } li a:hover { background-color: #369; color: #fff; } Hi, I'm getting a weird problem when viewing my client's site with IE6, however, it works fine in IE7 and FF. Here's the link: http://www.groundedgroup.com/client...or-sale/554421/ As you'll notice, the middle area containing the description of the home is messed up. Basically, the background resizes as you move the browser scroll bar up and down. Never seen this before. Does the same with the comment area below, too. Any ideas what's causing this? Thanks in advance. Hi everyone, I am having a problem where my text is resonably small and the paragraph spaces between them look silly because they seem much too big for the font size. Please have a look at my example below: CSS: Code:
div.orange{
background-color: #993400;
color: #FFFFFF;
width: 174px;
font-size: 10px;
font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-weight: none;
text-align: justify;
padding: 3px
}
.orangeHilight{
color: #000000;
font-weight: bold;
}
HTML: Code: <div class="orange"><p>DO YOU KNOW?</p> <p class="orangeHilight">Suppliers are shown per your choice of category:</p> <p>PLATINUM suppliers are shown first, with details of their companies and hospitality experience, contact details and a link to their own web sites for a closer look at their products. They also have pictures in the listing.<br> GOLD suppliers are shown next, but without pictures.<br> SILVER suppliers are listed with limited information and contact details.</p> <p>We also have a number of free listings for suppliers not currently registered with Hotelstuff. These are suppliers who may be of interest to you. Our toll free desk can help you with current contact information.</p></div> See what I mean. So is there anyway to reduce the space between paragraphs? Thanks to anyone who can help me out! Kenneth Hey folks, i'm just doing some experimenting with css right now, and hit a snag. if you look at the page, you'll see 'howdy' inside the top negative. i'm trying to format the text to fit inside the middle section of the negatives...one negative per paragraph. Whenever i try formatting it, it shifts the image downward, and i don't know what to do to fix it. CSS Code:
.ptext {
font:10px verdana, arial, sans-serif;
color:white;
padding:50px 60px;
width:350px;
height:375px;
}
p {
background:black url(images/negative.gif) no-repeat left;
height:375px;
width:350px;
}
HTML Code: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html> <head> <title>black/white - some kinda website</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <link href="35mm_styles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> </head> <body> <div id="container"> <h1></h1> <p> <span class="ptext">howdy.</span> </p> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> </div> </body> </html> any help'd be greatly appreciated. I think this is a very basic quesiton, but I am stumped with it. How can I make a paragraph that will be a specific width in the middle of the page for example regardless of the size of the monitor or browser window - that is, the paragraph will stay the same width even though it is on a page that will stretch to fill the entire window? This can be done of course with tables, but I would like to know how to do it with CSS. The margin property seems of no help because you must assume a given size of the page or parent element. Finally nearing completion of my site upgrade and fixing some minor visual problems. One of them being that the spacing between paragraphs is off. In that paragraphs are flushed against one another. After googling this for some time I found a fix that works perfect in opera and firefox but ie just refuses to go along. So my question is what do I do for it to work in IE? The code that works for FF and Opera is: Code:
p.normTxt + p.normTxt {
margin-top: 1em;
}
In IE the above code doesnt' work and acts like it's not even there. I really don't want to do margin-top, margin-bottom b/c that introduces another problem of only spacing if it's a middle paragraph. Thanks. I look after a website whose stylesheet includes the instruction p, ul, li { font-size: 12px; letter-spacing: 0.15em; padding-bottom: 1em; } This is interpreted as intended by IE and FF. However, Google Chrome appears to ignore the instruction. I'm not allowed to post a URL here, but if you search Google for "Stile Antico", you'll find the site as the first result, and then click on "The Group" for a page with plenty of body text. I've experimented for different values of the letter-spacing property, with mixed results; at 0.2em, Chrome gets it right (but this is aesthetically not good for me). I suspect there may be an issue with rounding/decimal places - but even so, that wouldn't explain why Chrome ignores 0.15em, rather than rounding it to the nearest usable value. Can anyone shed any light? I can't find a good workaround; I want to keep things expressed in relative units if possible. Thanks in advance for any help Andrew I'm attempting to display a first-letter style to my h1 tags, which has until now been a simple task. Everything was working fine until I made my h1 style display inline to remove the autyomatic line-break. Now my first letter style doesn't work. This happens on both Firefox and IE. code is thus: h1 { font-size:13pt; color:#2E3192; font-family:verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-weight:bold; display:inline; } h1:first-letter { font-style:italic; color:#CC6600; } Can anyone shed any light on this problem? Here's the code. Code: <div class="entry"> <p>Blah blah blah</p> <div class="postmetadata"> <div class="hide"> Blah blah blah </div> Blah blah blah </div> And the CSS. Code: #content div.post div.entry {
float:left;
margin:-5px auto auto 6px;
width:570px;
font-size:12px;
line-height:20px;
}
#content div.post div.entry p {
margin:0;
padding:0;
background:white;
}
#content div.post div.entry div.postmetadata {
margin:10px auto 20px auto;
font-size:11px;
line-height:19px;
border-top:1px solid #bcbcbc;
}
#content div.post div.entry div.postmetadata div.hide {
display:none;
}
Apparently I have to set background:white; to the #content div.post div.entry p for div.postmetadata's border-top to appear in IE7. Firefox and IE8 displays this correctly. Any ideas? I'm trying to get something that looks like this: Here is the xhtml: Code: <div id="container">
<div class="design_box">
<img src="images/image.png" alt="" />
<h1>Header goes here</h1>
<p>Paragraph goes here</p>
</div>
<div class="design_box">
<img src="images/image.png" alt="" />
<h1>Header goes here</h1>
<p>Paragraph goes here</p>
</div>
<div class="design_box">
<img src="images/image.png" alt="" />
<h1>Header goes here</h1>
<p>Paragraph goes here</p>
</div>
</div>
Here is the relevant css: Code: .design_box {
display: block;
margin-bottom: 17px;
}
#row_a_right_web_design img {
float: left;
}
.design_box h1 {
color: #fbfbfb;
font: bold .9em Tahoma, arial, sans;
margin-bottom: 4px;
}
.design_box p {
color: #c4c2c2;
}
Needless to say, the above css does not produce the desired outcome. I'm having a serious brain-fart as to what the best way is to tackle this. Thanks in advance. |
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