having problem in some text styling

[aqeel]

Hi friends i want to put an image as initial letter in a peragraph i used
background-image: url(initcap-o.gif);
but nothing appears in browser plz help me in solving this problem

[simcomedia]

Instead of doing it as a background just do it as a floated image:

float:left;
height:5.5em;
margin-right:0.1em;
margin-bottom:-0.4em;
position:relative;
top:-0.2em;