CSS selector involving pseudo class first-child and dropcap
- by Grnbeagle
Hi,
I need to format HTML similar to below. Basically a quote is optional, and I need to dropcap the first letter of the body paragraph.
<article>
<p class="quote"> <!-- quote is optional -->
Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.-- Joseph Joubert
</p>
<p> <!-- "L" is a dropcap -->
Life is like a box of chocolates.
</p>
<p>...</p>
<p>...</p>
</article>
My CSS looks like this:
article > p:first-child:first-letter
{
float: left;
font-family: Georgia, serif;
font-size: 360%;
line-height: 0.85em;
margin-right: 0.05em;
}
p.quote {
font-weight: bold;
}
It doesn't work currently when the quote is introduced. AFAIK I can't select the article's first child P which is not class "quote." I'll use jQuery if I can't figure this out, but for now I'm looking for a way to do it CSS only.
Thanks in advance!
