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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<head>
<title>CSS Test: Selectors: The :first-line pseudo-element</title>
<link rel="author" title="Gabriele Romanato" href="mailto:gabriele.romanato@gmail.com" />
<link rel="match" href="first-line-000-ref.html"/>
<meta name="assert" content="Browsers should apply the rule only to the first line of a block-level element"/>
<style type="text/css">
p, div {color: silver}
p:first-line, div span {color: fuchsia}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<p>The first line of this paragraph should be fuchsia (same as in the next block).<br />Filler text.</p>
<div><span>Lorem ipsum dolor.</span><br />Filler text.</div>
</body>
</html>