How to assign a color to first character of a text in label control

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I want to assign a red color to the first character 'c' of the text in the following code:

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<asp:Label ID="logofoodygoody" runat="server" Text= "chittoor.net"  ForeColor="Black"  Font-Bold=true Font-Size="XX-Large"
   style="font-family:Arial Narrow; margin-top:3px;  position:absolute; text-shadow: 1px 3px  Ghostwhite; font-weight:normal">
    </asp:Label>

I tried with span but did not work.

Posted 26-Jun-14 18:07pm

S.Rajendran from Coimbatore

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Prasad Avunoori 27-Jun-14 1:11am

Why don't you use div?

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 27-Jun-14 1:48am

Because "div" is a block element. Wrong idea.
The solution is way too obvious — please see my answer.
—SA

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2014-06-26T19:53:00

First of all, always remove all style-related attributes, move all styling to CSS stylesheets.

There can be many ways to solve your problem, but the elegant solution would be using the CSS ::first-letter pseudo-element:
http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/sel_firstletter.asp[^],
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/::first-letter[^],
http://css-tricks.com/almanac/selectors/f/first-letter[^].

—SA