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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<head>
<title>::first-letter pseudo-element</title>
<style type="text/css"><![CDATA[p::first-letter { font-size : xx-large ; background-color : lime }]]></style>
<link rel="author" title="Ian Hickson" href="mailto:ian@hixie.ch"/>
<link rel="help" href="https://www.w3.org/TR/css3-selectors/#selectors"/> <!-- bogus link to make sure it gets found -->
</head>
<body>
<p>This very long paragraph
should have a big first letter T with a green background. Dummy
text. Dummy text. Dummy text. Dummy text. Dummy text. Dummy
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</body>
</html>