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Originally Posted by RbnJrg

I don't know if I understand you well but I think you are confusing the things a bit.

With the pseudo-element ::first-letter you can't affect the indent, because the indent is for PARAGRAPHS, while ::first-letter is for the first letter of a paragraph. So, if you want to have not indented the first paragraph after <h> tags (or <hr> tag), then you should use something like:

h1 + p, h2 + p, h3 + p, h4 + p, 
h5 + p, h6 + p, hr + p {
     text-indent: 0;
}

And, if you also want to style the first letter of the first paragraph after a <h> tag, then you should use something like:

h1 + p::first-letter, h2 + p::first-letter, 
h3 + p::first-letter, h4 + p::first-letter, 
h5 + p::first-letter, h6 + p::first-letter,
hr + p::first-letter {
     font-weight: bold;
}

I was noticing that last night. I am currently using an h1 + p, h2 + p ... class and that was doing the actual nonindenting I was seeing. I was scratching my head over why a couple of my noindentdc situations weren't indenting though they were first-lettering. It turned out that the "automatic" <h2> + p wasn't kicking in because a blockquote (and in another case, just an anchor tag) was between the heading and the paragraph. As a side benefit of that research, I had turned up pretty much what you were saying. Although the explanation I found was that text-indent doesn't apply to ::first-letter. Your comment explains why.

I was thinking of trying to get it to work with the h1 + p class (similarly to what you showed), but hadn't figured out to apply the ::first-letter to <p> instead of to a different class. I was also considering some way to use it with a p + p class. I'll have to think about his some more. Right now, I'm leaning towards h1 + p::first-letter. But, I'll have to consider the ramifications.
Thanks.