Any ideas for CSS Sentence Case?

HTML & CSS
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Hi

I’d like CSS to transform lower case text into Sentence Case so that the start of each sentence after a full stop is a capital letter. CSS does not appear to have this option…all I can find is:

text-transform: uppercase
text-transform: lowercase
text-transform: capitalize
text-transform: none

and obviously none of these do the job. I have also looked at:

p:first-letter {text-transform: capitalize}

But this only works for the begining of paragraphs not sentences…

Any new ideas out there?

Thanks

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CSS isn’t able to transform text into sentence case at this time.

If you think about it, it is quite a difficult thing to do. It means that CSS would have to be able to understand all of the many grammatical rules of sentence structure - if the only place a letter is supposed to be capitalized was after a period then it would be pretty simple. But that isn’t the case :frowning:

I’d look for some sort of sentence case JavaScript if it is something you really need.

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OK, I suppose lots of great minds have thought about it…but to my mind sentence case just means simply start a sentence with a capital letter after a full stop…anyway how has Microsoft invoked it in MS Word 2003?

If I have the following in Word 2003:
the cat. the dog. the queen.
then Sentence Case changes it to:
The cat. The dog. The queen.

What else is sentence case apart from that…I may be missing something…

Cheers