---
category: Display
created: '2019-11-29'
description: Create a drop cap with CSS
keywords: css drop cap, css :first-letter
thumbnail: /assets/css-layout/thumbnails/drop-cap.png
title: Drop cap
---

## HTML

```html index.html
<div class="drop-cap">...</div>
```

## CSS

```css styles.css
.drop-cap:first-letter {
    /* Display at the left */
    float: left;
    line-height: 1;

    /* Spacing */
    margin: 0 0.5rem 0 0;
    padding: 0 0.5rem;

    /* Optional */
    border: 2px solid #d1d5db;
    font-size: 2rem;
    font-weight: 700;
}
```

<Playground>
```css styles.css hidden
body {
    align-items: center;
    display: flex;
    justify-content: center;
}
.drop-cap {
    overflow: hidden;
}
.drop-cap:first-letter {
    border: 2px solid #d1d5db;

    /* Display at the left */
    float: left;
    line-height: 1;

    /* Spacing */
    margin: 0 0.5rem 0 0;
    padding: 0 0.5rem;

    /* Optional */
    font-size: 2rem;
    font-weight: 700;
}
```

```html index.html hidden
<div class="drop-cap">
    CSS is a style sheet language used for describing the presentation of a document written in a markup language like HTML. CSS is a cornerstone technology of the World Wide Web, alongside HTML and JavaScript.
</div>
```
</Playground>