Pro HTML5 and CSS3 Design Patterns

CHAPTER 18 ■ DROP CAPS

Marginal Graphical Drop Cap cont.

Disadvantages Like all marginal design patterns, a border around the terminal block containing the
drop cap will not include the drop cap.

Related to Floating Graphical Drop Cap, Padded Graphical Drop Cap; Margin (Chapter 6);
Positioned, Closest Positioned Ancestor, Absolute, Relative (Chapter 7); Indented,
Offset Absolute, Aligned and Offset Absolute (Chapter 8); Top-Offset Sized Absolute
Element (Chapter 9); Text Replacement (Chapter 10), Horizontal-Aligned Content
(Chapter 12); Left Marginal (Chapter 13)