ZOMG you're a rock star! :D Installing...thanks!

I like it myself.

It's also cool that you can change the font type to make it stand out even further.

Select the letter, change the font type and use the Drop Cap button..... 6 is a good size :)

It's awesome. Is there any way to reduce the white space above a letter so it aligns to the top of the text beside it? Or is it the nature of CSS/HTML?

For some reason, Glow pushes my text down a line, causing chaos in the shoutbox.

I'm having issues with my server right now.

When it's up again I'll test some ideas I have.

That's the nature of having no standards in this stuff.

With the Firefox part it's not a problem as you can use the span tag.

However, in IE, you have to put the code into a table, P, H1 (or 2 etc) or div tag, which forces it to be on it's own line.

You'll notice that the part in the code for FF I used H1 tags so it will be more closely to what you'd get in IE.

You can remove the H1 tags in the FF portion of the code and it will be what you're after....however, those who use IE will be forced to see the results on it's own line and other areas where you use the code will be different for IE and FF users.

One of these days they'll get their acts together and start standardizing these things....but I'm not holding my breathe.

The method I used to get the code to work with both browsers was the best to reconcile the differences between the two ways they implement glowing text. (actually FF doesn't have a "glow" feature and you have to use a trick of shadowing the text to create the same effect that IE does naturally).

Sorry about this...it's the nature of the browser wars that you get this nonsense.

I've played around a bit and even set the padding to 0px for the top (padding: 0px 8px 0px 0px; ). It seems that the letter will not go any higher. Even when trying absolute padding it didn't work, and actually that totally messed it all up.

Short of using an image as a drop cap and wrapping text around it I think this is the best you'll get using text.

Thanks so much anyway - I still love it...especially as you say changing the font size and weight and color of that drop cap letter.

To complement the Drop Cap, I created a Justify BB Code that provides full text justification in newspaper style and it really improves the look of CMS articles. Feel free to improve/include it here if you like. Button image attached.

Code:
Also attached is a Drop Cap button in case you want to retain the look and feel of existing editor buttons.

Uh, how are we supposed to see how it works? All the example images are broken.