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How this text is broken up into lines by a user agent depends on
how the text is rendered, font properties, size of browser window,
and size of viewing device.

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111 Selector Reference
The selector p:first-line will match the first line of text rendered by the user
agent. We can see how a user agent might insert the pseudo-element into the HTML
block like this:

The above markup isn??™t valid HTML; it??™s just a visualization of the pseudo-element
concept.
If the first child node of an element is another block element, this pseudo-element
will propagate to the child node. Here??™s another example:

This is a paragraph of text containing several lines of text.
How this text is broken up into lines by a user agent depends on
how the text is rendered, font properties, size of browser
window, and size of viewing device.

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