Add a drop cap to your post or page

The letter “T” that begins this sentence is an example of a drop cap. This was made by just assigning the very first letter of the sentence a unique class name and styling it in my custom.css file. You can make a class for the drop cap and use it over and over again on any post or page on your site. Here’s a really simple way to create your own individual drop cap.

The first thing you want to do is assign a unique name to the drop cap class and put it in your custom.css. I named mine simply “dropcap”…

.custom .dropcap {}

Next, figure out where you want to place the drop cap and insert the following tags with the unique class name…

<span class=”dropcap”> </span>

For example, I wanted to put a drop cap at the beginning of the opening paragraph of this post..

<span class=”dropcap”> T </span>he letter “T” that begins this sentence is an example of a drop cap. This was made using the Arial font. You can make a class for the drop cap and use it over and over again on any post or page on you site. Here’s a really simple way to create your own individual drop cap.

Now in my custom.css I add some styles to the drop cap to make it look like the way I want…

.custom .dropcap {
color: blue;
float: left;
font-size: 4.8em;
margin: .3em .2em .1em 0;
}

You can pick and chose how you want your own drop cap to look with your own styles

Now you can place this in any post or page. When you’re writing or editing a post or page, make sure you’re in the html editor…

and simply apply the tags from the example above and wrap them around whatever letter you want to do it to

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