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Old 02-28-2025, 11:54 AM   #3559
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Originally Posted by DNSB View Post
There was a empty span wrapped about the first 40-67 characters of the line
This drives me crazy. I have never seen this kind of formatting in a physical book. What I have seen is the entire first line of a chapter being set in small caps/all caps/bold/etc.

Basically, the idiot that coded the HTML took a specific eReader with a specific font at a specific size and displayed the book with no auto-hypenation. Then, they went back and added the span to each chapter's first line so that it surrounded the characters displayed on the first line. Then, that got formatted as small caps/all caps/whatever.

Apparently, nobody that formats eBooks professionally ever got far enough in their W3Schools reading to know that ::first-line is exactly what they were trying to do.
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