Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 11/02/05 03:52

Jonathan N. Little wrote:

> Trying to understand the source of the vertical padding first-letter
> pseudo class when floated to produce a drop cap. See demo page that I
> have set up to illustrate the trouble.
>
> http://www.littleworksstudio.com/temp/dropcap.html
>
> Using the same code for a span element behaves differently and the
> problem seems to occur with Gecko browsers. Most drop cap example on the
> web use absolute dims in px and I wanted a flexible design that scaled
> with the font. Demo page includes code, live example and screenshots,
> the yellow background is the styled span and the red is the first-letter
> pseudo class. What am I overlooking here?
>
>

Some more info, apparently the problem is that the UA’s differ on what
actually defines the character box. With Mozilla is the total charter
height including ascender and descender and the room above for accent
marks. IE only considers the space IF the character has such attributes.
And Opera just ignores the whole business...

http://www.littleworksstudio.com/temp/dropcap.html

I have update the page to show this. I am try to find in the spec which
interpretation of the glyph is correct.

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Take care,

Jonathan
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