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Hi, I'm fuzzy on pseudo-classes. I've gotten this far: p:first-letter { color: green; font-size:xx-large } However, this applies to all text on the page. How do I restrict the first-letter specification to the the text in one div? Thanks, Tim

Hi. Me again. I have an animated .gif, consisting mostly of a line drawing and some text on a transparent background. I've toyed with the notion of displaying it on top of a background image. When displayed in the browser on top of a dark background image, the black lines and text have a...

This is partly an attempt to better understand a helpful suggestion made by vragabond in a previous thread. Lets say I want to place formatted text, including some links, and a few small images, in a rectangle in a certain area of a page. I might want to give the rectangle a border of a certain...

Greetings, I'm a do-it yourself web author, admittedly rather a novice. If this message looks familiar, I earlier posted it on the wrong forum -- HTML, CSS, etc. Most of the pages on my site are text-heavy. That's unavoidable. I think I have avoided serious readability errors. I'm more...

Greetings, I'm a do-it yourself web author, admittedly rather a novice. I hope this is the right forum for web-page design issues. I looked around and couldn't find a better one. Let me know if I'm OT. Most of the pages on my site are text-heavy. That's unavoidable. I know enough to keep...

Hi, I'm a do-it yourself web-page author. I'm upgrading my old site, which I made with a simple HTML editor. I'm learning to use CSS. That's going okay, but I'm stumped on a tiny item that's driving me nuts. Please help! I'm using table cells with background-color or background-image to add...

Hi, According to the Dummies book, "this" and "new" are operators. However, they don't show up in lists of operators, so they must be a special class of operators. The explanation in the Dummies book is incomprehensible, and I've found other incomprehensible explanations elsewhere. I'm not...

Hi, A basic question about dropdown menus, if I may. Let's say we have a horizontal row of four menu items. If the mouse is over one of the items, a menu drops down. Lets say the menu that drops down contains three additional items. I understand javascript is picking up a mouseover message...

Hello, I built my website by hand in HTML, several years ago. I've upgraded to CSS, and now need to teach myself JavaScript. I've studied the Dummies book and I've been through the tutorial at www.w3schools.com. I'm also familiar with Transcript and HyperTalk, scripting languages vaguely...