html - CSS First Letter Highlighting

Question

I understand that with CSS formatting the first letter of each paragraph is possible via:

p:first-letter
{
font-size:20px;
}

However upon using this code it is impossible to highlight/select these "First Letters" from the web browser, is there a way to amend this?

Edit - It is possible to select the text, however it isn't shown visually, how can I change this?

Answer 1

This is a bug in Chrome/ium/WebKit: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=17528