Which element is used to add special styles to the first line of the text in a selector with CSS


Use the :first-line element to add special effects to the first line of elements in the document. 

Example

You can try to run the following code to add special styles to the first line of text

Live Demo

<html>
   <head>
      <style>
         p:first-line {
            text-decoration: underline;
         }
         p.noline:first-line {
            text-decoration: none;
         }
      </style>
   </head>
   <body>
      <p class = "noline"> This line would not have any underline because this belongs to nline class.</p>
      <p>The first line of this paragraph will be underlined as defined in the CSS rule above. Rest of the
      lines in this paragraph will remain normal. This example shows how to use :first-line pseduo element
      to give effect to the first line of any HTML element.</p>
   </body>
</html>

Updated on: 29-Jun-2020

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