{
  "title":"::first-letter CSS pseudo-element selector",
  "description":"CSS pseudo-element that allows styling only the first \"letter\" of text within an element. Useful for implementing initial caps or drop caps styling.",
  "spec":"https://www.w3.org/TR/css3-selectors/#first-letter",
  "status":"rec",
  "links":[
    {
      "url":"https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/::first-letter",
      "title":"MDN Web Docs - :first-letter"
    }
  ],
  "bugs":[
    {
      "description":"In webkit-based browsers first character of text inside elements, styled with `::first-letter`, is not highlighted while selecting the text. [See bug](https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6185)"
    },
    {
      "description":"Firefox appears to incorrectly cut off the top & bottom of a `::first-letter` character in certain cases [see Firefox bug #1233271](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1233271)"
    }
  ],
  "categories":[
    "CSS"
  ],
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    "samsung":{
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  },
  "notes":"The spec says that both letters of digraphs which are always capitalized together (such as \"IJ\" in Dutch) should be matched by ::first-letter, but no browser has ever implemented this.",
  "notes_by_num":{
    "1":"Excludes punctuation immediately after the first letter from the match. (The spec says it should be included in the match.)",
    "2":"Acts like the first character is always a letter even when it's not. For example, given \"!,X;\", \"!,\" is matched instead of the entire string.",
    "3":"Only recognizes the deprecated :first-letter pseudo-class, not the ::first-letter pseudo-element.",
    "4":"Only matches the very first character. The spec says that surrounding punctuation should also match."
  },
  "usage_perc_y":98.5,
  "usage_perc_a":0.15,
  "ucprefix":false,
  "parent":"",
  "keywords":"first,letter,pseudo,element,class,selector",
  "ie_id":"",
  "chrome_id":"",
  "firefox_id":"",
  "webkit_id":"",
  "shown":true
}