first-letter/line bug?

[S7even]

I noticed the following when working with first-line and first-letter pseudo elements and IE6:

while this works:

p:first-line {
color:red;
}

This doesn't:

p:first-line{
color:red;
}

The only difference is that in the first case there is a space between ":first line" and "{" while there is no space in the second.

This happens only when IE6 is in standards mode. If I add the <?xml declaration, or remove the doctype then everything works.

Does this happen to your IE6 also? Is it a bug, or we are supposed to leave that space always?

[Jeff Lange]

I think generally people always use the space, or a newline. Not sure if it's in the specs though.