Hello Goodbye

Hello
Goodbye

etcetera

the first formatted line of the DIV is not the line "Hello".

This is a somewhat long HTML paragraph that will be broken into several lines. The first line will be identified by a fictional tag sequence. The other lines will be treated as ordinary lines in the paragraph.

First paragraph

Second paragraph

is

First paragraph

Second paragraph

This example shows a possible rendering of an initial cap. Note that the 'line-height' that is inherited by the first-letter pseudo-element is 1.1, but the UA in this example has computed the height of the first letter differently, so that it does not cause any unnecessary space between the first two lines. Also note that the fictional start tag of the first letter is inside the SPAN, and thus the font weight of the first letter is normal, not bold as the SPAN: p { line-height: 1.1 } p:first-letter { font-size: 3em; font-weight: normal } span { font-weight: bold } ...

Het hemelsche gerecht heeft zich ten lange lesten
Erbarremt over my en mijn benaeuwde vesten
En arme burgery, en op mijn volcx gebed
En dagelix geschrey de bange stad ontzet. the lines of which happen to be broken as follows: THIS IS A SOMEWHAT LONG HTML PARAGRAPH THAT will be broken into several lines. The first line will be identified by a fictional tag sequence. The other lines will be treated as ordinary lines in the paragraph. might be "rewritten" by user agents to include the fictional tag sequence for :first-line. This fictional tag sequence helps to show how properties are inherited.

This is a somewhat long HTML paragraph that will be broken into several lines. The first line will be identified by a fictional tag sequence. The other lines will be treated as ordinary lines in the paragraph.

If a pseudo-element breaks up a real element, the desired effect can often be described by a fictional tag sequence that closes and then re-opens the element. Thus, if we mark up the previous paragraph with a SPAN element:

This is a somewhat long HTML paragraph that will be broken into several lines. The first line will be identified by a fictional tag sequence. The other lines will be treated as ordinary lines in the paragraph.

the user agent could simulate start and end tags for SPAN when inserting the fictional tag sequence for :first-line.

This is a somewhat long HTML paragraph that will be broken into several lines. The first line will be identified by a fictional tag sequence. The other lines will be treated as ordinary lines in the paragraph.

Ab cde fgh i jkl. Mno pqr stu vw xyz. A bc def g hij ...

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