DropCaps on your WordPress blog
How do I do a dropcaps on the first letter of a post?
DropCaps is the name for the effect where the first letter of the first paragraph in an article drops below the line of text, and is displayed in a larger font-size than the other normal letters.
This can be done using BBCode quicktags. First, add this to your style sheet:
#fp:first-letter { font-size : 300%; font-weight : bold; float : left; margin-right: 3px; }
then add following code to file /wp-includes/js/quicktags.js and put them among edButtons:
edButtons[edButtons.length] = new edButton('ed_capdrop' ,'CapDrop' ,'<p id="fp">' ,'</p>' ,'c' );
You will now see a CapDrop quicktag in your edit window.
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