:first-line and Floated Inline Images

This page describes a bug in Opera (tested with V7.11 and V7.2beta1) relating to the CSS :first-line property. The first line of this paragraph should be in Bold, with the first letter larger than the rest, defined in CSS using :first-line and first-letter. Great in V7.11, but the next paragraph will fail to apply the :first-line formatting. In V7.2beta1, there is a bug with applying both :first-line and :first-letter whereby the line wraps after the first letter.

Here is the offending paragraph. As you see, the paragraph has an image floated to the left at the beginning of it. This causes the :first-line formatting to fail, although the :first-letter formatting is unaffected. This is filling text to pad the paragraph out: If one examines subpatriarchialist material theory, one is faced with a choice. Either accept the presemioticist paradigm of reality or conclude that the task of the artist is deconstruction, given that reality is equal to art. It could be said that the subject is contextualised into a Batailleist `powerful communication' that includes language as a totality. Marx uses the term 'precapitalist semiotic theory' to denote the bridge between narrativity and society.

This paragraph is formatted fine, so it only applies to paragraphs containing the inline floats. This is filling text to pad the paragraph out: If one examines subpatriarchialist material theory, one is faced with a choice. Either accept the presemioticist paradigm of reality or conclude that the task of the artist is deconstruction, given that reality is equal to art. It could be said that the subject is contextualised into a Batailleist `powerful communication' that includes language as a totality. Marx uses the term 'precapitalist semiotic theory' to denote the bridge between narrativity and society.