papabaer - 3:22 am on Apr 9, 2002 (gmt 0)

Giving up <font> tags is not so bad... as Pageone notes (hey! how's it goin' eh?), you can gain quite a bit of control using styles.

I have always been a sucker for drop-caps using the span tag and applying a .class to the first letter of an opening paragraph is something I use on occasion. It's simple, it's easy and it is all style (no image involved).

.drpcp1
{
font-weight: bold;
color: #000;
font-size: 26px;
float: left;
background-color : Silver;
padding : 0px 2px;
}

.drpcp2
{
font-weight: bold;
color: #600;
font-size: 26px;
float: left;
background-color: #fc0;
padding : 0px 2px;
}

(based on a paragraph font-size:12px ;)