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Originally Posted by brewt
The Evil Empire has a surprisingly elegant solution to the drop cap problem: It's a menu item in Word, and it creates a 1-celled table with the letter (or word) larger, with text wrapping around it to the right.
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Ewwwwwww. Simple rule for if things should be a table in HTML: is the content actually a table? If no, then no. It appears MSWord creates a table here so that they can set the HTML 3.2-ish "align" attribute to "left," which has the same result as setting the CSS property "float" to "left" on a block-level element in any contemporary renderer. In other words, it achieves the same thing that all the basic previous drop-cap content does, only with 300% (or so) more evil.