Create Drop Caps using CSS

Introduction

Drop caps is a very old technique of styling first letter of a paragraph or an article. The first letter of a paragraph that is enlarged to "drop" down two or more lines. Drop caps are often seen at the beginning of novels, where the top of the first letter of the first word lines up with the top of the first sentence and drops down to the four or fifth sentence.

Using the code

With CSS alone we can achieve this requirement. Let’s have a look on the following example.

/* CSS Snippet */
<style>
    p:first-letter {
        font-size: 400%;
        float:left;
    }
</style>

<!-- HTML Snippet -->
<div style="width: 40%;">
    <p>
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    </p>
 </div>

Result