Title: drop caps
Last modified: February 7, 2017

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# drop caps

 *  [mulberry](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mulberry/)
 * (@mulberry)
 * [21 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/drop-caps-3/)
 * someone may be interested in drop caps. I suggest a way using quicktags to do
   this.
    firstly, add this to your style sheet: #fp:first-letter { font-size : 
   300%; font-weight : bold; float : left; margin-right: 3px; } add following code
   to file /wp-admin/quicktags.js, put them among “edButtons” `edButtons[edButtons.
   length] =  new edButton('ed_capdrop' ,'CapDrop' ,'<p id="fp">' ,'' ,'c' ); then
   you will see a CapDrop quicktag in your edit window. That’s it. Example [here](http://yanfeng.org/blog/index.php?p=380)
   hope someone can make it a plugin.

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 *  [carthik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/carthik/)
 * (@carthik)
 * [21 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/drop-caps-3/#post-74845)
 * Adding that to quicktags.js using a plugin won’t be easy. A plugin could be written,
   albeit using a different method.
    But that said, this seems to be a good solution!
   Thanks for sharing it with us.
 *  [davidchait](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidchait/)
 * (@davidchait)
 * [21 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/drop-caps-3/#post-74932)
 * I have a method for CHAITGEAR that should be able to translate into a plugin 
   at some point, assuming there’s no tags at the start of the content (I’d have
   to add significant enhancements to move past all tags and find the first character…).
   It’ll be another week or two before I can get back to it…
    d
 *  [TechGnome](https://wordpress.org/support/users/techgnome/)
 * (@techgnome)
 * [21 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/drop-caps-3/#post-75334)
 * Actualy, David, it’s not as bad as you think it is. Check the first character,
   if it is a < then simply skip over until you find the matching >… then check 
   the next letter after that, repeat until it isn’t a < at least that’s what I’ve
   done in mine. The only problem now is when the post starts off with an image….
   
   TG
 *  Anonymous
 * [21 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/drop-caps-3/#post-75335)
 * Or a blockquote 😉
 *  [TechGnome](https://wordpress.org/support/users/techgnome/)
 * (@techgnome)
 * [21 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/drop-caps-3/#post-75338)
 * oooooh, good catch, as I do that myself some times….. hmm…. gives me something
   to think about…..
    TG
 *  [Richard Brown](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cregy/)
 * (@cregy)
 * [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/drop-caps-3/#post-75609)
 * Hi
 * I have tried to use DropCap on the site at [http://www.swmug.co.uk/](http://www.swmug.co.uk/)
   but it doesn’t work. Does it work on 1.5 please? And if so any ideas what I might
   have done wrong?
 * Thanks
 * Rich
 *  [Marc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marc/)
 * (@marc)
 * [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/drop-caps-3/#post-75610)
 * Try this:
 * [http://www.mandarindesign.com/troops.html#magazinedropcaps](http://www.mandarindesign.com/troops.html#magazinedropcaps)
 * Or this:
 * [http://www.mandarindesign.com/dropcaps2.html](http://www.mandarindesign.com/dropcaps2.html)
 *  [Richard Brown](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cregy/)
 * (@cregy)
 * [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/drop-caps-3/#post-75611)
 * Hi All
 * I found it. It shows up as a quicktag box in editing page/post. You place the
   cursor at the start of the paragraph you want the drop cap to be and then place
   the cursor at the end of the paragraph and close the drop cap.
 * Hope that helps.
 * Rich
 *  [Skauss](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bladerunn3r/)
 * (@bladerunn3r)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/drop-caps-3/#post-75628)
 * Hello everybody!
    Printf has created a plugin for drops caps, you can get it 
   at [http://www.printfhelloworld.com/wordpress-plugin-big-first-character.html](http://www.printfhelloworld.com/wordpress-plugin-big-first-character.html)
 * I added some more css to make it consistent in both firefox and explorer.
    P.
   BigFirst:first-letter { color: white; font-size: 4em; font-family:times; font-
   weight:bold; float:left; padding: 6px; margin:0 5px 0 0; display:block; border:
   2px solid #ffa729; line-height:1em; background-color:#ffa729; }
 * See an example at my blog [http://www.skauss.com](http://www.skauss.com)

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