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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>CSS Test: First-letter using background and padding</title>
<link rel="author" title="Microsoft" href="http://www.microsoft.com/" />
<link rel="help" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/selector.html#first-letter" />
<meta name="assert" content="The background and padding properties is allowed for :first-letter." />
<style type="text/css">
div
{
margin-top: 40px;
}
div div:first-letter, span
{
background: aqua;
color: green;
padding: 24px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<p>Test passes if the two lines of text below look identical.</p>
<div>
<span>F</span>iller Text Filler Text Filler Text
<br /><br />
<div>Filler Text Filler Text Filler Text</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>