Making some % of first line different in new chapters?

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Turtle91

I agree you can't quite do what you want. The only thing you could do is set your :first-line attribute and then have a minimum number of words (in this example 4) that would be emphasized regardless of the reader's support of the pseudo selector. If the font was so large - or the screen so small - that only 3 words fit on the first line, the 4th word would still be emphasized on the second line. But that would be a pretty extreme situation to only fit 3 words on a line.

eg.
CSS
h1 + p {text-indent:0}
h1 + p:firstline {font-style:italic}
em {font-style:italic}

HTML
<h1>Heading Line</h1>
<p><em>The first four words</em> are italic on non-supportive devices. The entire first line is italic on supportive devices.</p>

-OR-

h1 + p {text-indent:0}
h1 + p:firstline {font-variant:small-caps}
.smcap {font-variant:small-caps}

<h1>Heading Line</h1>
<p><span class="smcap">The first four words</span> are smallcaps on non-supportive devices. The entire first line is smallcaps on supportive devices.</p>

Incorrect! The first four words are not smallcaps as ADE does not support smallcaps as a font variant. So it won't work. All you'll is the first paragraph with ALL the words in the same format.

[Turtle91]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Incorrect! The first four words are not smallcaps as ADE does not support smallcaps as a font variant. So it won't work. All you'll is the first paragraph with ALL the words in the same format.

It actually is correct, and works fine on devices that support small caps. (reference Jellby's and my comment a few days ago) ...the "non-supportive" means non-supportive of the :first-line pseudo element - not small caps.

The question wasn't really about small caps support or ADE for that matter. It was how to get the :first-line pseudo element to work with the right number of words. The small caps and italics was just an example of how to change the formatting...of course it depends on if the device fully supports the spec or not. ADE, from what I've experienced, doesn't.

[DiapDealer]

ADE IS the spec, silly turtle!
Sorry, got carried away a bit there playing wolf's-advocate.