The :first-letter pseudo-element is used to add special effect to the first letter of a text.
The following properties apply to the this pseudo- element −
Following is the example which demonstrates how to use :first-letter element to add special effect to the first letter of elements in the document.
<html> <head> <style type = "text/css"> p:first-letter { font-size: 3em; } p.normal:first-letter { font-size: 10px; } </style> </head> <body> <p class = "normal"> First character of this paragraph will be normal and will have font size 10 px; </p> <p> The first character of this paragraph will be 5em big and in red color as defined in the CSS rule above. Rest of the characters in this paragraph will remain normal. This example shows how to use :first-letter pseudo element to give effect to the first characters of any HTML element. </p> </body> </html>
This will produce following black link −