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Book-style Chapter Introductions Using Pure CSS

# Linked to 2 February 2008, 15:00 in by Sam Brown

This is a great, simple tutorial explaining how to replicate the book-style chapter introductions of yesteryear — drop-capped first letter, small-capped first line — without having to insert a single class, ID, or span into your XHTML. If your code is well-formed, you could just add this CSS to your style sheet and be done.

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Sam Brown

Sam Brown is a freelance interface designer and web standards developer based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Sam's work can be seen at Massive Blue, blogs at Sam Brown and is on Twitter at @sambrown.