User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030726 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030726 This bug is spawned off from http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=212145. The generated content is now applied, but ::first-letter isn't applied. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Visit http://www.annevankesteren.nl/css/testcase/generated_content.html 2. The bold generated content should have a capitalized first letter. Actual Results: The first letter of the bold generated content wasn't capitalized. Expected Results: Capitalize the first letter Related to http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=212145

This seems like an issue with nested blocks, not with generated content...

Not sure if this can help, but Opera 6.06 applies this correct.

Anne, the question here is what "correct" is. The CSS spec is not clear on whether the ::first-letter applies through block children.

It does. The next draft of CSS2.1 will contain explicit text for this. It'll be out Real Soon Now.

Besided that, it is a "pseudo element" and a "element" may be styled either inline or block if I am correct.

OK. Taking bug, in that case. This should not be that hard to fix, I _think_ (though there may be some issues with nested blocks each of which has a first-letter set on it). Anne, I'm not sure what you're getting at in comment 5.

Sorry for being unclear in comment 5. What I meant to say is that ::before is a pseudo-element. A pseudo-element/element may be styled using the display property. This way you can alter a pseudo-element from inline to block-level and from block-level to inline. Second thing is that the pseudo-element first-letter applies on the first letter of generated content (e.g. ::before). If you combine this with the information in the previous paragraph you understand why ::first-letter should apply on: <div> <div>aaa</div> </div> I hope this is a better explanation.

I'm not sure if bug 219770 is the same bug. I don't know _anything_ on the way Mozilla works. Could someone take a look at it?

CSS2.1 is totally redefining how first-letter and first-line work, so we're probably going to have to totally rewrite all the relevant code....

not so much "redefining" as "defining", but yeah. Original testcase is now 404: http://www.annevankesteren.nl/css/testcase/generated_content.html Attached testcase (attachment 128595 [details]), while not guidelines-compliant, is valid, in that the first "a" should match the grandparent node's :first-letter pseudo.

Not going to get to this any reasonable time.

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/selector.html seems to be pretty clear about it.. (despite a grammar issue ;)) "Note that the :first-letter pseudo-element tags abut the content (i.e., the initial character), while the :first-line pseudo-element start tag is inserted right after the start tag of the element to which it is attached." the fictional html sequence they use for this: <P> <SPAN> <P:first-letter> T </P:first-letter>he first </SPAN> few words of an article in the Economist. </P>

Please read and quote from CSS 2.1; the specification Mozilla is going to follow.

Submitted related test to CSS 2.1 test suite: CSS Test: First-letter - in-flow block descendant that contains text http://test.csswg.org/suites/css2.1/nightly-unstable/html4/first-letter-selector-028.htm Gérard