I have moved to a new web site; this page is here. This version WILL NOT be further updated and remains only to maintain old links.
This was a test of browser conformance to the CSS specification's statement that border-color, if unspecified, is the same as color. It now has various weird things too.
the quick brown fox
jumped over the
lazy dog
It uses the :first-letter pseudoclass to implement "drop caps" - note the margin trickery to make the bottom of the letter touch the bottom of the second line, without causing empty space on the third line.
The title at the top uses a series of absolutely positioned overflow:hidden elements to create a banded gradient effect.
This was a test of browser conformance to the CSS specification's statement that border-color, if unspecified, is the same as color. It now has various weird things too.
the quick brown fox
jumped over the
lazy dog
It uses the :first-letter pseudoclass to implement "drop caps" - note the margin trickery to make the bottom of the letter touch the bottom of the second line, without causing empty space on the third line.
The title at the top uses a series of absolutely positioned overflow:hidden elements to create a banded gradient effect.