Posted by Harlan Messinger on 10/06/06 18:02

NoWhereMan wrote:
> are these css selectors legal ?
>
> .storycontent > p:first-child:first-letter{
> font-size: 6em;
> color: #bc0f09;
> font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;
> float: left;
> padding: 0.1em;
> }
>
> .storycontent > p:first-child:first-line{
> font-variant: small-caps;
> font-size: 1.3em;
> }
>
> looks like syntactically valid (the w3c validator says it is) but is it
> legal ?

Why do you doubt the veracity of the W3C validator?

>
> firefox interprets this as I suppose it should; opera does not :(

The W3C validator is a priori more reliable (because comprehensive) than
Opera.

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