Drop Caps with CSS   
 
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Drop Caps

Want to make the first letter in your paragraph a drop cap?
Try floating that character in a span element.

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<style>
.dropcap {
width: 1em;
height: 1em;
float: left;
text-align: center;
font-size: 20pt;
color:red;
font-style:italic
}

</style>
</HEAD>
<BODY bgcolor=ddddaa>

<TABLE><TR><TD width="200">
<p><SPAN class="dropcap" >
T</span>his is a dropcap
text text text text text text text text 
text text text text text text text text 
text text text text text text </p>
</TD></TR></TABLE>
</BODY> 
</HTML>