::first-letter CSS pseudo-element selector
- RECCSS pseudo-element that allows styling only the first "letter" of text within an element. Useful for implementing initial caps or drop caps styling.
Chrome
- 4: Partial support
- 5 - 8: Support unknown
- 9 - 116: Supported
- 117: Supported
- 118 - 120: Supported
Edge
- 12 - 116: Supported
- 117: Supported
Safari
- 3.1: Support unknown
- 3.2 - 4: Partial support
- 5: Support unknown
- 5.1 - 16.6: Supported
- 17.0: Supported
- 17.1 - TP: Supported
Firefox
- 2: Partial support
- 3: Partial support
- 3.5 - 116: Supported
- 117: Supported
- 118 - 120: Supported
Opera
- 9 - 9.6: Support unknown
- 10 - 11.5: Partial support
- 11.6 - 101: Supported
- 102: Supported
IE
- 5.5: Support unknown
- 6 - 7: Partial support
- 8: Partial support
- 9 - 10: Supported
- 11: Supported
Chrome for Android
- 117: Supported
Safari on iOS
- 3.2 - 4.3: Support unknown
- 5 - 16.6: Supported
- 17.0: Supported
- 17.1: Supported
Samsung Internet
- 4 - 21: Supported
- 22: Supported
Opera Mini
- all: Supported
Opera Mobile
- 10 - 11.5: Partial support
- 12 - 12.1: Supported
- 73: Supported
UC Browser for Android
- 15.5: Supported
Android Browser
- 2.1 - 2.2: Support unknown
- 2.3: Partial support
- 3 - 4.4.4: Supported
- 117: Supported
Firefox for Android
- 117: Supported
QQ Browser
- 13.1: Supported
Baidu Browser
- 13.18: Supported
KaiOS Browser
- 2.5: Supported
- 3: Supported
The spec says that both letters of digraphs which are always capitalized together (such as "IJ" in Dutch) should be matched by ::first-letter, but no browser has ever implemented this.
- Resources:
- MDN Web Docs - :first-letter