How to make large first letter of paragraph?

[bobinyec]

I recently saw a webpage in which the first letter of the first word of a paragraph was large, with the text of the first two lines wrapping around it. This is typical of what you would see in a book. How is that done?

Thanks,
JB

[Vanessa]

It depends...if you were looking at a site like Wordpress it was likely a plugin that did this.

[Wilsonsway]

It's possible to do this with an image too and let the remainder of the text wrap around it giving it the same look and feel as that of the book you mentioned.

Just fire up whatever image editor you use (such as Fireworks, Photoshop or GIMP) and just use the text editor part to create the look you're wanting.

[damiancds]

I would recommend you look at W3Schools, they've got great examples and their easy to learn from.

For your first letter of the paragraph, I'd look at this example http://www.w3schools.com/css/tryit.asp?filename=trycss_float4

of course, this method uses css, and if you're unfamiliar with it, you might want to stay away or pick up some new tricks

[hashim]

You can try this

p {font-size: 12pt}
p:first-letter {color:#ff0000;font-size:xx-large}