initial-letter-align
Description
The initial-letter-align property for CSS specifies the alignment points used to size and position an initial letter. Two sets of alignment points are necessary: the over and under alignment points of the initial letter are matched to corresponding over and under points of the root inline box.
Syntax
CSS
initial-letter-align: value;
JS
object.style.initialLetterAlign = "value";
Values
<'initial-letter-align'> =
[ border-box? [ alphabetic | ideographic | hanging | leading ]? ]!border-box
Use the initial letter box’s line-under and line-over border edges as the over and under alignment points, respectively.
alphabetic
Use the cap-height and alphabetic baselines of the surrounding text to align the initial letter.
ideographic
Use the ideographic-ink-over and ideographic-ink-under baselines of the surrounding text to align the initial letter.
hanging
Use the hanging and alphabetic baselines of the surrounding text to align the initial letter.
leading
Use the over/under half-leading edges (i.e. ascent/descent + half-leading) of the surrounding text to align the initial letter.
Initial
alphabetic
